Well, if you haven't figured it out already, we have been very busy over the last several weeks. We celebrated Christmas 3 times... Christmas Eve we slept in, a little, the kids internal alarm clocks don't turn off very easily. When we got up we had the kids come into our room and we read the Christmas story, then we went into the living room where the kids got their first look at their presents, Malachi got a big boy bed and Matt had set it up the night before. Malachi enjoyed climbing all over it while Mysia opened her present from Mommy and Daddy, it was an educational computer game. Can you tell that we were a little bit practical in our gifts this year? Then Matt and I opened our gifts, I got a camera and Matt got a Remote Control All Terrain Vehicle, we had both been wanting these items and spent the rest of the day playing with our new "toys". The kids also got each other gifts, Mysia got a doll, that she absolutely loved, from bubby and Malachi got a pair of remote control cars from Sissy. That evening we went to our church's candle light service, it was very nice, a good reminder of why we celebrate Christmas, that it's not just about the gifts but it is about the greatest gift of all - eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
On Christmas Day, we went to have Christmas with the Paasches. Ben and Ana were down, for the last time before little Elijah is born, and it was great to get to visit with them. We all got a lot of cool presents and also had fun playing "Dirty Santa" everyone had gotten a $5 gift that would be nice for anyone and we drew numbers to see who went first, then we went in order and picked a present, we un-wrapped the gift and then the next person got to choose ifthey wanted to pick a diferent gift or steal that one, it was alot of fun!
Friday we stayed at home and did a whole lot of nothing!
Saturday, we celebrated Christmas with the Keim side of the family and had alot of fun there as well.
New years eve we went to church for the first half of the service the kids were getting tired so we left early, I fell asleep about 11:40 Matt stayed up and saw the new year in alone!
On New Years Day we had the members of Steppin' Out Quartet and thier families over, Greg and his family were out of town, but everyone else came, that would be Noah Lyons and his family and Sam and the Paasches, Noah and his family left a little early, Noah had to meet with a detective about recovering some of the stuff that had been stolen form his house earlier that week and his family had soem things that they needed to get done in preperation for leaving for the mission field in a few days. Garry and Vicki left for the mall to do some shopping soon after, leaving Sam and Abigail with us, we played dominos and Matt's new card game Morff with them and had a lot of fun just hanging out. That pretty much is what we've been up to for the last week or so. Taxseason has started and I'm working for Block again this year so I anticipate being very busy over the next several weeks/months. But I'll try to keep things up to date!
Till then
~Lydia
