Another Chicago Christmas...

Merry Christmas everyone! Wow, I can't believe it's come and gone! It was over so fast.

I hope Santa brought all you asked for! He sure came to our house! Avery made out like a bandit, thanks to Santa- Nana and Papa! It was the first Christmas, that Avery would actually open presents, but still it wasn't easy to get him to do it! He would get one opened a then want to play with it. After an hour of this Troy and Kasey started to open some for him. He was so fun to watch, he was most excited when he opened his Diego Backpack, he screamed with joy!

Kasey had a great Christmas too. She made out with a lot of money!!! She can't wait to go to the mall, I don't know if we can do it again this soon, I guess we'll see? Sadly, we didn't get to witness in person Jaylyn and Hallie's Christmas, but from what we've heard, and from what they've told us, they too came out on top, so to speak!!!

Hallie got a cell phone, yes she's 8 years old- when we told this to the Missionaries, Elder Hinrichs said "She just became accountable for her sins, I guess she's old enough to be accountable for a phone too!"It was so funny! Anyway, Hallie called about 5 times on her new phone, she was very excited, and we are happy that she got it, so we can talk to her more!

Jay was also happy Hallie got a phone, cuz now she won't have to use hers!!!

The Missionaries spent the day with us. We had lunch, watched football, played with toys, took the tree down, I know it might seem weird that we took the tree down but it was dead, and all the very deadly needles were falling on the ground, so we decided to just get it out! It was funny though, as Troy and Kasey were taking it to the curb, one of our neighbors said "Dude, it's still Christmas!" Troy said Bah Humbug! Just kidding, he explained that it had died, and become a danger to our family! Then we ate dinner together, watched more football, and Deal or no Deal. It was really nice having the Missionaries here, Kas and Avery have so much fun with them. We hope they had a good time with us, it's going to be hard to see these two go.

We missed you all more than we can even try to explain. We love you all!

Merry Christmas...