Friday, December 24

Grandma & Luke are ready to go hiking and birding.

Our little Polar Baby!

Lily in her activity-mobile. Beep-beep, coming through!!

Grandpa and Grandma Great, Lily, Asher, Luke, Olive and Lillie.

Sledding before Christmas dinner! Everyone had a great time!!

Today we had our Christmas dinner since Trish and Chad are leaving for their home in Dover on Christmas night. It seems different trying to get dinner ready at 1 instead of a "magic moment" when dinner is usually ready at 6 pm. All the while preparation was taking place I was trying to watch Luke and Lily enjoying Christmas stockings. I was a little apprehensive about getting everything to come out of the oven on time and completely cooked but I must say, dinner was pretty good with lots of variety. I did forget to bake the dinner rolls but I didn't hear anyone complain and we seemed to have plenty. Before we ate, the kids, Luke and Daniel's two oldest went sledding. Mom and Dad were able to join us from the Madison House and several friends stopped out to see us (well mainly to see Lily) along with my brother and his family. We had a great time. At 6, I headed down to church for our Christmas cantata. It was a wonderful ending to a pretty perfect day. The only thing that would have made it better is if Sara and Matt could have been here. Merry Christmas everyone, enjoy this special day!