Christmas 2008

We had a wonderful Christmas! Chrissy came in town on Christmas Eve. We made pies and cookies and went to a Christmas Eve service at our church that evening. After church we went to dinner at Olive Garden and drove around looking at Christmas lights. Christmas morning, Madeline was awake at 5:30 and came into our room multiple times to try to get us up. Poor Chrissy - she chose to sleep with Madeline that night, so while we were able to "snooze" between Madeline's wake up calls until 7 am...Chrissy was not so fortunate. We had to wake Hannah up because we couldn't see making Madeline wait another minute. They had a great time opening gifts. Santa brought Madeline a guitar and Hannah a neat tricycle. After cleaning up all of the wrapping paper and boxes, we went to my mother - in - law's house where we celebrated Christmas with Chris' mom, sister Becca, sister Manda and her new hubby Cody, sister Joy, bro in law Mick and neice and nephews Austin, Heather and Phillip. My dad came too ~ I absolutely love getting to celebrate with my dad, sister and in laws at once.

Here's a video of Madeline when she received her Christmas gift from Aunt Joanne and Uncle Ralph. I'll post christmas pics later...We LOVE you guys!!