Christmas...

Can you believe it??? I took not one picture on Christmas morning. Not one. What was I thinking and what am I going to do for our 2008 Christmas scrapbook page??? If you are checking my blog for pictures...sorry... Not having any pictures is not that bad though considering how our family has been blessed this year...God is so good!!!

I would have to say that this year was by FAR the BEST Christmas we have had as a family! I have so many thoughts going through my mind that I hope this post is not to crazy to follow...

We began making plans for our Christmas sometime after Thanksgiving. I was looking forward to a quiet Christmas but one full of traditions!! As the week began I realized one thing I hadn't thought of earlier. What if it snows??? What will we do??? Kevin will have to plow but what about all of our traditions?? Well it snowed. If I remember correctly it snowed both Tuesday and Wednesday. A LOT....and Kevin was gone all day Tuesday and then home for about 4 hours to sleep that night and then back out plowing Christmas Eve. He was able to come home around 3 for a couple of hours only to get STUCK in a drift. This took longer than realized; he came home to say he loved us and back out again to clean all the parking lots before they opened again the day after Christmas. It wasn't a huge deal that he was gone Christmas Eve night....all we were planning on doing was pizza and a Christmas movie...but I was SAD!! I felt bad for him but prayed that I didn't have a bad attitude. It was difficult but he was home around 8 or so. Not bad...I am thankful that our friends Jared and Melissa stopped by with their little guy Dylan. That was so thoughtful of you both and it meant so much to us!

Christmas morning was WONDERFUL!!! We all slept in till 8 and enjoyed over an hour of opening gifts from each other and from my parents. We are so blessed. We then enjoyed an entire morning and afternoon just with the four of us playing new games and spending time together. Just what I needed!! We didn't have family coming over till 5 and eating at 6. The turkey that was given to us was 30 pounds. It took a BIT longer to cook than we thought so we all sat down to eat at 7. ;) All in all a Christ centered day that I had prayed for!! God is so good and I am thankful for His goodness.

We see and hear around how horrible the economy is. We have all felt it in one way or another, but isn't God so faithful to us regardless of all that is reeling on around us?? How has he provided for your family???