Christmas

Well, Christmas has come and almost gone again. BUT, we have had a wonderful Christmas despite the snow storm...

Dave took half the night off and surprised us by coming home around 9 :) The roads are SSSOOO bad here and everywhere I'm sure. He got home by driving through the empty lots.

We have truly had a wonderful couple days here and will have a great weekend too I'm sure. The kids are so excited about all of their new things. I just have to pack some of their old stuff away for awhile to made room for the new stuff. We just finished playing "Barbies" here about an hour ago. Emma is sleeping in her sleeping bag in the livingroom. Lauren started out there but moved to her new "princess bed."

Before I forget, here is the picture from out visit with Santa on the 22nd. We stood in line for well over an hour before visiting with "the big guy."

I have taken so many pictures and will try to post a lot of them now. Yesterday we made it to 4:00 Mass, which was more than packed.

Then went to mom and dad's to eat and open gifts. The kids were wound up as you can imagine

We left a little earlier than we wanted to but needed to try to beat the majority of the snow. We followed Ted and Stacy home then we went home. There were a couple "interesting" places along the way home. I was a little nervous, Emma was praying out loud, and Dave was loving it and laughing at times. We made it home ok though. Then we left cookies for Santa and the girls said good bye to our little elf "Porter." Thankfully no tears this year. And, we told them that it was ok to touch him on his last day with us. He will no doubt be back with us next year.

Of course Santa came during the night and we were all up at about 7. I guess it could have been way earlier. Santa brought Emma a pogo stick, Lauren some dress up princess things, and Marina a bee scooter. They all love their gifts....good job Santa. :)

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OK.....too many more pics to post tonight. I'm giving up. Merry Christmas to all. Hopefully I can finish up tomorrow.