Christmas Morning

The gifts are opened and the mess cleaned up. Paul's taking a nap and the kids are playing with their gifts.
We all got up early, I guess we are all kids at heart.
I tried to teach the kids a lesson before anything else. To remember to pray first for those who wouldn't have a good day today. Derek and Erin who just lost a baby before his first christmas, Kendra and Gary who just lost a mom. Before we have fun, be thankful for your blessings and pray for comfort for those who are suffering today.

The kids seemed to like everything they got. I think they got most of what they wanted. Tawnya was really wanting High school musical kereoke for playstation, we got her a battery charger for her camera, she's always needing batteries, plus a bunch of other stuff.
Carl wanted most Ripley's believe it or not book, and he got a bunch of magnetex to build stuff.

I was really suprised at what I got. Tawnya got me a beautiful set of dishes and some glasses. Ours were getting chipped. She picked out some really nice ones. They go perfect in my kitchen. Carl got me a pen set.
Besides the dishes, Paul suprised me and got me a new digital camera, I was not expecting that. He got me and tawnya both a really nice Mossy Oak sweatshirt. He got me this foot bath massage thing that heats and massages. That is going to feel great. I got a lot of other nice stuff too and so did he.
But then he gets to open more gifts in a few weeks for his B-day, so I had to save the best thing for that.

It was a nice morning and now we are all sleepy and ready for a nap.

Sam came down Sunday night and we did christmas. I think she liked what we got her.
She told Paul she moved in with her grandma. He was glad she got away from a bad situation, but I think at the same time it hurt him that she felt like she couldn't come to him. He has always wanted to be a bigger part of her life more than anything and had that taken away from him.
I got some pics of the girls, they had on matching shirts which was cool for the pic.
I hope everyone had a good evening.

December

Paul had his company party last week. It was at Divinci's again, but they didn't have the dip, missed that, it was the best part.
We wasn't sure if Kathy & Chip would be there this year since she quit at NOE to go help Chip out at his office, but they came. It was so packed this year you couldn't move around much so noone really walked around and talked but we got to talk to them some when everyone was leaving.
Paul took this past Tuesday off and we went out to breakfast and then did some shopping. Neither of us likes to shop, but it's better when we make a day of it and it's become a tradition.
We went down to my mom and dad's last weekend, Tawnya had a youth group meeting that night so we just had to go down and back, but it was a nice few hours.

A Few Favorite Verses

Matthew 6:3-4 When you do a kindness to someone, do it secretly, don't tell your left hand what your right hand is doing. And your Father who knows all secrets will reward you.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with manny sorrows.

Phillippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.