Christmas for us included lots of family time

David's parents from South Carolina and his brother Mark and family from Hobe Sound, Florida came and spent Christmas with us this year. Christmas eve found us over at David's brother Philip's house across town where we had a delicious meal, lots of laughter and gifts!

This is the guy cousins minus Curtis. We missed you Curtis.

And the girls minus Jennifer. We missed you too Jennifer.

Hmm...

This is what our Santa looked like eating the cookies and milk left for him by 3 excited children in Greenfield...

What did yours look like?
David was so full already and was heading off to bed when I reminded him of his duties as Santa. Sarah Brooke was in bed when she realized that 3 carrots was not going to be enough for all of the reindeer. We started trying to list the names of them and she knew where they were in a book. We came up with 9 so we added just the right amount of carrots. Somebody shouted (we had family staying with us) that santa was in Indianapolis and she fired off to bed and we never heard from them again till morning.
We woke them up to have our family Christmas. The night before we offered for our overnight guests to join us or they were welcome to sleep in.

When Mark (chose to sleep in) greeted us Christmas morning he said "let me guess what you all got for Christmas...a mega phone and a flute recorder". How on earth did he know!!! When I talked to my Dad on the phone later that morning he said that he thought this was a good year for him to be there and our family to be here. Good times!!!

More memories to post later.

A little cheer going on around here...

Christmas stuff 2008

Cameron and the girls built the Christmas tree this year. I can't wait for them to learn how to do lights. I must admit that I was not particularly in the mood to start the chore of decorating for Christmas. I set the Saturday after Thanksgiving as the day to get it done and I finished up late that night. Now I'm really enjoying it. Worth all the effort :-)

Need a laugh....

or wanting to feel like you aren't alone in your angst for decorating for Christmas? Go on over to my friend Heather http://theloperhouse.blogspot.com/ and check out her December first post Putting up the tree. Absolutely priceless!