Zeke, of course, was the first one awake. He came in and snuggled with us until Paw-Paw called to tell us he was up and ready. Ready for what? you may ask. Adam had arranged for Paw-Paw to watch the kids open their gifts via WebCam and Yahoo Messenger. How cool is that? We love modern technology.
So presents were opened, the ham and rolls were prepared, muffins were eaten, coffee was drunk and now we sit in front of the fireplace, happy & content. It is -6 degrees outside. There is about a foot of snow outside and it is sunshiney.
We went to "midnight" Mass last night. It began with Christmas carols from 10 - 10:30. One of the choir members sang a solo of 'O Holy Night' (my favorite carol) which was beautiful. Here are some pictures of Our Lady of Assumption. We take pride in our church because we helped decorate it last Sunday. See that poinsettia on the ground? Yah, we helped move that. And those trees? Adam lifted those.
This evening we are going to our friend and neighbor's house to play games and hang out. Mom & Johanna are due to arrive here tomorrow night. We plan on assembling & decorating our gingerbread house Saturday with their help. We baked the panels and had some dough left over so Adam & Clare made gingerbread men. We had leftover crushed LifeSavers from the stained glass so Clare decided to use some red candy for her gingerbread man's smile. Instead of grinning, however, poor Mr. Gingerbread Man looks like he is bleeding from the mouth:
Mona, John & Jennifer wil arrive Sunday and Jaime & Justin will be here Tuesday. We wish you & yours a wonderful day. God bless us, everyone.
