Michael, Andrew, and Steven: Merry Christmas-2008!!!

This is the 2nd year we stayed put and everyone came to us. It is becoming a very nice treat. My parents use this as their stopping point on their way south to Florida. And Jeff's parents come down for a week + to see all their grandkids. My parents arrived Sunday before Christmas and stayed with us. We were very busy doing lots of fun things. My mom did her annual gingerbread houses with the boys. This was Andrew's first year to do one. I think he ate more candy than actually went on the house. We went bowling too. Michael has been asking to go again-he went about a year ago and LOVED it! So we all went one morning. Christmas morning the boys woke up to snow from Grandpa Guild again. He brought it all the way from Michigan-where snow has been in abundance this year. Then they dug into their presents. It's amazing to me all the planning and shopping that goes into that day...and it's over in a blink of an eye. But it was so fun to watch. Later that day we hosted a nice dinner with The Guilds, Carmen and Craig and my whole family. It was a lovely day. The day after Christmas was Round II. We spent it with the "Guild Gang". We all got togther for breakfast. And then it was present time again. The cousins always love playing together and wear us out just watching them. But those days are few becuase Jeff's brother Mark will be moving to South Carlolina in another month or so. So we'll take all the playdates we can get. All in all it was a fabulous two days of Christmas. Only 354 more days until next year :)