Merry Christmas

We have had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas this year.  In spite of the blizzard, we were able to make it to a Christmas Eve Mass, spend time with family and friends, eat a LOT of great food, and there were a few gifts exchanged as well.

After Mass on Thursday evening, we opened our family gifts.  Henry gifted Josh and I with a clay handprint that he had made in preschool. It is precious.  I was most excited to open that gift, even though I had a strong feeling what it was.  I remember making my parents the same gift as a child, and it was so special for me to be on the receiving end of that moment for the first time...

Sean was just as happy to see one of us open a gift, as he was to open one himself.  That boy can really get excited!

We had to wake Henry on Christmas morning.  Santa visited and brought the three boys a keyboard.  Henry has been creating wonderful music, and Sean has surprised us with some new dance moves!  After gifts, Josh spent the rest of the morning shoveling a narrow path in the driveway so we could go to his parents for breakfast...which turned into lunch by the time we all made it there.  We still arn't sure how much snow accumulated, but because of the winds, we had a four foot wall of snow up against our garage, and an even higher wall at the end of our driveway.  Normally a situation like this would have had us frustrated by the inconvenience of such a large quantity of snow, but we have been able to enjoy every moment knowing that next year at this time we will be cleaning sand off of our sandles!