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It's Christmas Day!

Glory to God in the Highest and on earth peace, good will to men! Today is the day we celebrate the birthday of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah!

Rich and I spent the first Christmas Eve and Christmas morning alone since our first Christmas together. It was wonderful!!! We are heading over to Hollie's house to celebrate with the whole family this evening. Originally the family was getting together on Christmas Eve but schedules became so complicated that we changed plans. It has been a wonderful laid back, yes, even a romantic Christmas!

I babysat Henry and Jack on Thursday and then Becca and I took the boys out for a late lunch (she got off early), to the library for books (we found more train books) and then over to our house for the evening since Brent was working. We had such fun. Both of the boys are very sweet and love coming over to Nana's house. Jack took his second nap of the day at our house (he has a cold) and Henry rested while watching an Elmo DVD. What a grand day!
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Grompy said…
Merry Christmas to you! We are enjoying Brad and Mari and the kids. We have lots of snow and the kids have played out in it a couple of times. We are cooking turkey now and will have our fondue Sunday eve. We don't have an evening service. Our love to you, Cheryl
December 25, 2010 at 12:12 PM
Grompy said…
Merry Christmas to you! We are enjoying Brad and Mari and the kids. We have lots of snow and the kids have played out in it a couple of times. We are cooking turkey now and will have our fondue Sunday eve. We don't have an evening service. Our love to you, Cheryl
December 25, 2010 at 12:12 PM
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