THIS CHRISTMAS KEEPS ON GIVING

We loved our Christmas. Here are the 12 days of Christmas round-up that our two daughters and their families gave to us. We had so much fun opening them one at a time until Christmas!

DAY 6 - FAMILY PICTURES! beautiful pictures of the kids and the families!

DAY 7 - MOVIE TICKETS! Now we are going to go see Avatar!


DAY 8 - WARM GLOVES!

DAY 9 - HOT CHOCOLATE!




DAY 10 - BOOK - "I BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS" BY DIANE ADAMSON"




DAY 11 - REMINDERS OF CHRIST

DAY 12 - PERSONAL LETTERS WRITTEN BY FAMILY MEMBERS --These were wonderful sweet letters written to Rock and I expressing memories and sweet positive expressions of gratitude which we really appreciated. We did get a laugh out of the letters of the two 9 year olds whose letters basically said: "Thanks for having my mother, because if you didn't have her I wouldn't be here today and what would the world be without me?"

Rock and I appreciated the fun! Thanks so much to the Nicholls and Gatten families!

WE ALSO GOT TO CELEBRATE TWO BIRTHDAY'S IN DEC! BROOKE AND HALLIE! Our Brooke is a special person, she can do anything and do it fast! She is creative, motivated, and a great mother to her 5 children. She is a marathon runner like her dad, and a quilt-maker like her mother. She also is a voracious reader. Everyone in our family admires and loves her for her many talents. We all like to tease her that she is the "president" of the family. That just means she is really good at taking charge of things! We all look up to her!










Hallie is our sweetheart. She is just two, but she talks really well. In fact she is so smart that she can use a cell phone to call grandma anytime even when her parents are sleeping. She loves my I-phone and can usually play any game on it without my help. Wow, two-year-olds are really special, but you have to constantly watch her in case she wants to "borrow" your scissors or pens or something dangerous. She also likes to do everything Jayma does.

BEN AND SETH SPEND A FEW MINUTES BONDING...AHEM. (THOSE I-PHONES ARE AMAZING)