Christmas

I am finally posting about our Christmas. We have been running all over for the last week or so. Here are some of the pictures to show what we were up to for Christmas. Our usual traditions were carried on this year and we also started a new tradition. We decided to cut our kids gifts back to 2. Yes, two. Spencer was really the only one we had to explain it to, but he took it very well and didn't seem to mind at all. We also decided to buy gifts for a family. I guess you can say we "adopted" a family. Spencer was the most excited about this whole experience. He took part in making the shopping list and buying some of the gifts. We wrapped all the gifts on Christmas Eve day and after our Dove family party, it was time for the "drop off". We turned off our headlights as we made our way toward the house. Spencer and I sneaked all the gifts out the back of the car, and tiptoed up to the door. We had made our plan before getting out of the car. We placed all of the gifts on the step, knocked on the door and took off running. Tim was parked in the dark waiting to drive away as soon as we were in the car. But we did get to see the ladies face whenever she opened the door, looked around and found the gifts. This was one of the high lights of my Christmas~as well as all our family. We enjoyed giving and teaching our kids that giving is much better than receiving.

We also decided to get out of town on Christmas Day. We headed down to the beach for some R&R. But our R&R didn't turn out quite as we had planned. Tim and I both got a stomach virus and spent the last day or so sick~YUCK!! Things are looking up now, thankfully the kids have not gotten it...yet!

We hope you all had a very merry christmas and we wish you the absolute very best in 2009.