Our Wonderful Family: 2008-12-21

I hope all the shopping is done, the cookies are baked & you can start to relax & have a wonderful Christmas! I'm proud of myself this year. I got it all done pretty early & some gifts are even wrapped :)

I'm still holding out for a white Christmas but it doesn't look so good....think it's gonna be rainy instead. Oh well. Unfortunately we can't control the weather. Thanks to the the icey mix last Friday, schools were closed which meant Dominic didn't get to have his Christmas program. I was sooo upset. I was really looking forward to watching him & his class. He was okay with it though. He's glad to have a couple weeks off. I was hoping they would re-schedule it but I guess that's not going to happen.

We've been having ALL kinds of holiday fun! We started out the day with Brandon & Morgan, some friends of ours, making ....well my kids just ate......Christmas cookies than we took the boys to ride the Santa Train at the outlet mall. It was lots of fun. Santa read them a story, sang some songs & Gino even sat on his lap (w/Dominic right beside him). He gave them wooden train whistles & candy canes too. Last year Gino didn't want to have anything to do w/Santa....so I was pretty excited for the Kodak moment!

When we got home Jamie & his kids (Thomas, Alivia & Tyler) came over w/a gingerbread house to assemble.....what fun they had! It looked NOTHING like the picture. But do they ever? All the kids got in on the action & had a great time.

Than last week we made Cut-out cookies w/Sunshine & Addison. That was fun too! Everyone did very well rolling out the dough (Dominic & I were also eating it) and cutting out the cookies. We were all covered in flour. It was nice having a big enough kitchen & counter space to make cookies this year!

We are sad that my brother, Brandon, will not be able to make it home for Christmas this year. He will be staying in Florida....finances are a little tight for everyone this year I think & travel is certainly not cheap. We want to wish h

im a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & let him know that he will be missed & we will be thinking of him!!!

I had every intention of getting out Christmas cards this year...but yeah, that didn't happen. Next year I will for sure!