Merry Christmas!

...and a happy up and coming new year! christmas time is great isn't it? so much wonderful memories being made with family and friends. unfortunaltly all of our extended family is out of state so my family has spent christmas at home for about twenty years with out fail! we would love to be with grandparents and aunts, uncles, cousins but since we can't we always call them and take turns talking to them and sharing our different versions of storys about the day. in fact i just got off the phone with our grandparents in Divide,Colorado. i was the last,and 9 others had already talked to them before i even got the phone!sheesh,i think they were about talked out when my turn came. (lol i'm just kidding!) well i guess i'll tell about my christmas day now. christmas eve we always watch the movie 'its a wonderful life'. its a tradition here we have had since,well...way before i was even born!
With our family of 10,christams day starts at about 4:oo a.m. when the younger kids get up and wake up every one with their "shushing" and "be quiet!" to eachother and so called 'tiptoeing' down the stairs to look at the stockings and gifts! This morning was a little different tho. My wonderful brother woke up at about quarter after 4 and thought it best if he woke me up too....bad idea. i told him to go back to bed and stay there. (he called me a crank and spoiled sport...oh brother.) well he listened for once and went back to his own bed amazingly, i wasn't shaken again until about 7. that was surprizing! so up and at 'em at 7:00 a.m! we opened up stockings and ate breakfast of pumpkin muffins and eggs and venison sausage caserole. then my dad read Luke 2 in the Bible while while we were all together at the breakfast table. I seem to get more and more out of the christmas story every year i hear it read. and find it more interesting every time too. For example, you hear so much in story books and retellings of the nativity about the"three wise men that brought gifts". Well, there is NOTHING in the bible that states the number of wise men (or kings) that came to worship Jesus as a child. It says that 3 gifts were brought to Him. Gold, Frankinsince and Myre. Read the account in Luke and Matthew sometime when you have some time and you'll be surprized in how many new things you will read about and think to yourself "hmm, i never knew that before...
Well all in all we just had a nice day together home as a family. I got some nice gifts, made some great family memories, and ate plenty of ham, cheesecake and chocolates! well there you have it, thats about what happened here today. i have to go wash up dishes now so i have to wrap this up...Merry Christmas!!!!!
Peace to you all!