Merry Christmas.

Hey all We decided to start a Blog. I can't believe how easy this was. Most things I do on the computer I need my husbands help with. I really have gotten very self reliant over the last 8 months. Can you believe he has been gone that long. We are really enjoying this Holiday season we started with decorations the day after Thanksgiving. Seeing How Erick is coming on Sunday for 16 days we have been kind of rushing the Holidays and hoping it will slow down while he is here.
I thought I would talk about some of our christmas family traditions. My mom is a seemstress and she made us kids matching Christmas Jammies (Pajama's) every year. She even went as far as taking us all in to Walmart for pictures in jammies. Being teenagers it was embarresing. She has kept that tradition with the grandkids. She now has 15 Grandkids and she sews for each of them. We have spent many Christmas' apart with my brother in Med School and the Amry and us Navy, but we always knew we all had on matching jammies Christmas eve. This year we are all going to be together for Christmas the first time in 13 years. Of Course my mom is loving every minute of it and the grandkids have yes had there pictures done in them already. When Erick and I started our family we wanted a Christmas tradition of our own. On Christmas eve day we go to a store usually Family Dollar. And We split into 2 teams. And we have to buy a present for eveyone on the opposite team with a 10 dollar limit. It has been something the kids have loved so we have done it for many years now. On Christmas eve we also write down a gift we would like to give our savior for the next year. And we read the ones we wrote last year. It is a great way to remember the Savior on Christmas.