Well we had a fun Christmas! On Christmas Eve we read the Christmas story together and talked about Jesus and what Christmas means. Eileen learned "Picture a Christmas" this year in Primary and she has been singing it all month. This week she added a new verse. This new third voice goes something like this- "picture the evil mean king Herod and he wanted to cut off all the babies heads...." (They did a neat primary Christmas activity on Sunday and they had someone portraying King Herod and he was rather enthusiastic... ) :) For some reason Eileen was very curious about why and how Herod wanted to kill the babies.

So Christmas morning was also fun (aside from Aaron being sick and having a 102.4 fever) Eileen was so funny, she got so excited about everything. Anna got her stocking and found the cereal and pop tarts in the top and went to the table ready to eat, everything else forgotten! Aaron just wanted to play with all his sisters stuff! I had fun this year

using up extra fabric and making Christmas presents. I made bags for the kids and put note books and colored pencils in them. We couldn't get Anna to open up anything once she found the book and colored pencils! Dan found a jump rope for the kids and the girls got very excited about that too. We went outside with them and they jumped over the rope while we held it. :)
After we had opened gifts and played for awhile, we went down to Grandma and Grandpa's house for brunch and gifts and dinner. We had lots of fun playing with Grandma Penny and Grandma and Grandpa Cox. That evening we had a yummy dinner and then went home for bed. Our wonderful day was capped off by a video call with Dan's parents from Malaysia. The kids had lots of fun talking to them and showing them some of their gifts.
The next day brought even more fun when Aunt Sandi and Uncle Jon and Great Grandpa Francone showed up! It's so nice to get to see family! Life is great. Now we just need to get ourselves ready for a marathon and get poor Aaron over this cold. :( Wish us luck!! Sorry there aren't more pictures, but there are so many cute ones that this post would have ended up being a book by itself with the pictures and their explainations! Maybe I'll get more up eventually!
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My daughter, jamie , came and sat by me when I was looking at your latest adventures. I asked her if she recognized who this blog belonged to and she said "yeah it's the good singer". You are known for your voice even with 8 year olds. :) Have a good new year.
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