I love being home for Christmas (California home). I'm sure a lot of it is because it's the house I grew up in, with the people, foods, scents, traditions that I've always loved. It makes me happy that my husband and kids love being there so much as well.
On Christmas Eve, my mom and I thought it would be nice to reflect on the "reason for the season" by having everyone dress a part from the Christmas story as we read it from the bible. Stephenie and my little brother Brett thought we were joking at first. When they realized we were dead serious, they reluctantly complied, then became severely paranoid when cameras were pulled out, assuming that those pictures would indefinately show up on Facebook and/or my blog. As you can see, I upheld my promise to not post any pictures of them, but I'm not too embarassed to show you this picture of a 37 year old virgin Mary and her Angel, Alex.
Santa did good with this basketball hoop. As soon as Alex saw it, he made a bee-line for the ball, immediately started shooting, and continued to play with it almost non-stop. We practically had to force him to look at his other gifts.
Hope you all had a great Christmas! As I'm writing this, I just realized it's 11:45 p.m. on December 31st. I guess I'd better go upstairs, rouse Steve who I'm sure has fallen asleep on the couch by now, and quietly ring in the New Year so as to not wake up Alex. I wonder if this uneventful New Years Eve is any indication of what to expect in 2009. Hopefully we'll have a good balance between exciting times and peace. I hope the same for all of you in the new year!
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Where in Cali are you? We are in Cali right now too. Spencer's family is from the bay area (Fairfield, Vacaville, Salinas, Galt, etc). We are in Fairfield, got here the day after Christmas and we were supposed to go home today but couldn't make ourselves leave yet so we are staying until Saturday. It's a lot harder to leave when you don't have a home to go home to :( We miss you guys already! Give me a call I have all the time in the world so we should let the boys play!
How exciting! Alex seemed to be having so much fun with the b-ball hoop! How funny!
How nice that you were able to go home for the holiday's. It looks like you had a great Christmas. That basketball hoop is cute!
Too funny! I love the virgin Mary! And I am so jealous you got to go to Napa, looked like a wonderful vacation! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Hope I get to work with you soon! You've got to take Alex on the Polar Express next year, he'll absolutely love it!
Gas for trip to California $150.00
Presents for xmas morning $300.00
37 Year old virgin Mary...priceless!
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