Merry Christmas!

Christmas in Hershey...no snow...yay...but it's coming right now. The kids had school Thursday and swim practice so our vacation started Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve consisted of laundry, cleaning and then baking cut-outs and frosting them. This was Keegan's first time making cut-outs and he loved every second of it. The kids took showers and put their jammies on and we went to look at Christmas lights. We went to a house that has their lights set to music on a specific fm channel that they program. The lights go with the music and it was great. They do this for a St. Jude's fundraiser. There are 5 families that do this in our surrounding area but this house was closest to us in Harrisburg.

Santa arrived at our house even though Carey and Keegan were on the naughty list (portable north pole sends emails to your child based on answers to questions that mom or dad answer). The girls got bedding for their new bunkbeds that Grandma Patty bought them for Christmas. Keegan got the roundhouse for his train set. Since we are going to Williamsburg, the kids wouldn't have anything to open other than their one santa gift, so the gift cards we received from family at Thanksgiving were used to buy things the kids had on a list and then I wrapped them up and put them under the tree so they could have presents to open. I obviously did a good job picking out stuff from their list because the girls said it was the best Christmas ever!

We had Christmas Dinner at our house with Mike, Beth and the kids which was nice since we don't get to visit with them too often. Julia is almost as tall as I am! We got to watch her beautiful figure skating performance at Nationals where she and her partner Sasha won the gold medal in the Juvenile Dance category at Jr. Nationals! We've got a national champion in the family!!

The Christmas decorations are all down already...different from last year when they were all up past Valentine's Day!

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! Talk to you all soon.

Take care,

Jenn