Christmas

This year we were on our own for Christmas. We decided last night that it is more fun to be with family during the holidays. We were able to spend part of yesterday with old family friends, (they knew my parents when they were first married and lived in Vale, OR - now they live in Edgewood, NM) it was great to see them and their family again.

We stayed home this year partly due to money - now that Kendra is two we have to pay for her airplane ticket, and partly because we are really behind with everything because I was so sick. Mark has six days off of work so we get him all of next week too! This is great! Sometime between now and then I hope he'll fix our kitchen faucet which broke a couple of weeks ago.

Here are some pictures from Christmas:

Notice the proud father in the background.

The things Disney teaches children...

Christmas Eve

This is our first year that we did not travel to be with family at Christmas time. Although we miss our families we've had a good time staying here. On Christmas Eve we made a gingerbread castle. Kendra spent about an hour making it just perfect. She said, "I'm doing a good job!"

She was very excited to do it herself!

This is the finished castle.

And this is what it is suppose to look like!

Kendra is usually shy and reserved when people are over at our house. This time Kendra was hyper and aching for attention! She kept making up songs.