We hope you had a Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone had a great christmas! We sure did. My kids woke us up at 4:30 in the morning to open gifts! We told them to go back to bed. They then woke us about 7:30ish and we had no power. It really sucked opening gifts with a flashlight and the light from the camcorder and NO COFFEE! Though really, the only part that sucked was the no coffee part. After we opened gifts I went back to bed until the power came on at 10:30. I was finally able to function with the coffee pot brewing, our heater heating (thank you Bob for the fireplace tip!), the christmas music blaring and food cooking! Santa suprised our kids with a ping pong table this year. It was a bonus gift :) It has been really fun to play though our basement doesn't have any heat. You have to bundle up to play ping pong. It is still way fun.

P.S. Regarding the picture above. I thought my kids didn't really care if they saw Santa or not. I was wrong. Josh wanted to see santa. So we headed to mall on December 23rd for Joshy to see Santa. Jacobb was totally too cool to see Santa. He wanted to sit on a bench in the mall while we waited in line. Anyway, an hour and a half later we finally get to see Santa. Josh gets one look at him and says "NO WAY I am not going up there." So I hurried and grabbed Josh and we all ran up there for a pic and we left. Though after Jacobb told Santa what he wanted Josh mumbled a wish too. Thankfully Santa heard them! They both got what they asked for. We went out to eat after and all Josh could say was "that Santa was CREEPY!"