Christmas

Maisy and Bernice opening their Christmas Presents :)


Happy New Year everyone...

We hope you all had a very wonderful Christmas and a fun and safe new years. We were blessed to extend our Christmas for a week. We spent Christmas day with Philip's family in Mound and this past Saturday with Abby's family in Delavan. We were able to have a white "Christmas" both times...(well, the snow did not come until Sunday at the Anderson's). Christmas Eve we spent with just our little family making food, listening to Christmas music and watching It's A Wonderful Life.

I just want to reflect a little on this past holiday season....Although the Holidays see to come and go so quickly as adults we still enjoy them and try to capture those child like magic Christmas moments, that is Philip and I do. Not all people seem to take that in though. As an adult and working around people I saw something awful happen the weeks around Christmas....People seemed to become greedier and complain more. This makes me sad because it is a reminder that for most, Christmas is all about money and most of the time the lack their of. Now, I know most of you cherish the true meaning of Christmas and hold this dear to your heart, but we all can get caught up in the "money" of the season. Presents are nice to give and receive, but its not those "things" we get for Christmas that make it special, but the moments that do.

Here are a few of our favorite Christmas moments this year:



Pot roast (and eating way too much)

Snorta (the only time it is appropriate for adults to make that many animal sounds :)

Nieces and nephews

Maisy becoming a horse (pictures to come)

Maisy getting into the garbage (picture to come:)

Walks in the woods as the sun sets

Snow (the feeling of being in a blizzard...sort of )



There were so many moments of laughter this holiday. I can't remember when I have laughed so hard I got tears in my eyes. Thank you all for a very wonderful Holiday. We wish you the best this year in all that you do and encounter.

Love,


Philip and Abby