Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

The celebrating is officially over, though I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities for gatherings. There are still plenty of birthdays, NYE parties, Super Bowl, and vacations.  Yesterday went by in a flash.  Here's some photos of our day below.  We started the day getting ready for church and packing up our things for the day. Church was absolutely excellent! We rushed home and loaded all of our goods to grandmas (Peter's mother).  We ate a delicious meal consisting of ham, potatoes, homemade root beer that Peter and I made,  salad,  roasted root vegetables and more. I always look forward to the 'candied' cucumbers. I am sure they have loads of sugar but i just dont care.

After this, some went outside to ski. i did some dishes and peter and I practiced our song for our program. The girls played piano, Ella recited Psalm 34:14-19 and I sang.  We opened gifts after that, and then it was time for our picnic outside.  This time it was in the evening, which was fun. Desert was after and at 10:30 we finally crawled into bed.

I'm still unsure how to get photos lined up nicely.  It has been really fun to go back and read some of the posts written years ago. It has been 5 years at least. Little Maddy was only 4 and Ella just a baby. Since then, so much has changed. I really miss those years when the kids were so young, and its sad that I'll never get them back.