Vacation and Christmas

I am so glad that our holiday is over! We were all sick over the entire thing. We either had a cold, or when that ended, a stomach virus! It all started the week before Christmas, and continued until this past weekend. Ryan was home for all of it, and as much as I love my husband and children, all 4 of us in one house sick at the same time is not what I consider a fun break! Hopefully we will be able to take a fun vacation soon, and leave the germs behind.

This Christmas is the first year that Turner really began to understand. We talked to him about it being baby Jesus' birthday the whole month! When we asked he would tell us it was going to be baby Jesus' birthday! It was so cute, and then to really hit the point that Christmas was a birthday party for someone very special, we had a birthday cake for Jesus' and let Turner blow out the candles. He loved it! It is definitely going to be one of our favorite new family traditions.

We also celebrated Santa, and Turner and Reese left out cookies and milk for him when they went to bed (and carrots of course)! They were very excited to see that Santa and the reindeer came and ate some of the food! They loved opening presents and they were spoiled to the max! We are now going to be donating a lot of toys and clothes to Goodwill!

I will post more about Christmas with photos later! I am enjoying getting back to our normal lives again! I hope everyone has a great beginning to 2008!