Maybe Christmas, he wondered, means a little bit more!

Merry Christmas everyone! The picture show is of things we did through the month of Dec.
We had a great one up in the Northern country. Actually Josh and I had a big traveling weekend and got to spend some time with a lot of loved ones. We started our journey Fri night and made it to up to Idaho. Then Sat morning we drove over to Vancouver to visit some good friends. We have a dear friend who is battling an illness, and that is another story, but we were so excited to spend some time with him and his family. On Sun. we headed back to Idaho to spend Christmas with Josh's family. It was fun and the kids had a blast! We have not seen Grandpa Dave in a long time, it was great to spend time with him. Kenna actually stayed in ID while Josh and I went to WA, because she wanted to see Grandma and Grandpa! We had a wonderful Christmas Eve filled with good food and good company. The kids had fun listening to the Christmas story, read by Aunt Cheri, and Kennedy had fun setting out the cookies (vanila wafers), milk for Santa, and carrots for the reindeer. Imagine her face the next morning when Santa left a note for her! She was so excited! Christmas morning was great! I love to see the excitment on the kids faces as they unwrap their gifts. It was all sorts of fun and chaos at the same time! The first gift was a small Nativity, to remember why we have Christmas, to celebrate Jesus' birth, Heavenly Father's gift to us. It has been fun this year, Kennedy has been so excited about everything Christmas. I think a lot of things she has done at school has expanded her mind and imagination!! Boston loved everything and wanted to play with everything, even if it wasn't his. Needless to say he and his cousins need to work on the sharing aspect of things. But if a quarrell ever started it seemed to end just as quickly. Kids, gotta love em! Griff was just excited to see all the people. He cut another tooth and didn't sleep well, but you would never guess it during the day. He is such a happy baby!! Ken and Pat came up to visit on Christmas day. They are some great friends of Dave and Audrey's from Buhl and we have become great friends as well. We always love seeing them. Then Wed. came and feelings of sadness along with it. It is always hard to say good bye to Dave and Audrey. A bright side is that we were able to stop at my mom and dad's on the way home. Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go! It was great to see mom and dad and mom's beautifully decorated home. After a few hours it was on back down to where we call home. The kids are excited to be home and play with their new treasures. We loved seeing everyone we saw and missed everyone we didn't! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!! (I feel like sleeping for a month.)