Third and Final

Our Christmas #3 on Christmas Day was very merry!  Jessi, Charlie and Ethan were in town to celebrate with us.  On Christmas Eve we made our traditional trip to the bowling alley.  After coming home from mom's annual Christmas Eve party, we got the children all nestled in bed.  Hope could not fall asleep until after 11:00 for one, she was not feeling well and kept coughing; for two, she got a brief worry that she might be on the naughty list; and for three, she was SO excited! so Santa had to wait awhile before he could deliver the gifts.  EJ woke up to tents and tunnels, Hope to a digital camera, and Ethan to a Wii.  They were all very excited and grateful to Santa!  After opening MANY more gifts, Mom, Doc, Kristen, Jill and her family and Rob and his family all came over for Christmas brunch and more presents.  That night we continued our Christmas tradition of going out for Chinese food.  It was great to have Jessi and her family join us this year.   
A 'few' pictures:

We had a great day as we celebrated Christmas, the birth of Jesus. We feel blessed to have had the time with family and greatly missed those that were far away!