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Christmas 2016

This year the kids were with their mom in the week leading up to Christmas, so it was pretty quiet around our house with just us and Morgan. One night we let her choose whether to go to a movie or go look at the Festival of Lights. She chose the lights, so we drove through Freeman Park and saw the light display, went to the house with the music and lights, and then got a treat at Broulims. She had a fun time. She had fun running a school in our piano room, and she gave Kory and I homework, and graded our assignments. Both Kory and I got in trouble in class--me for tattling on Kory too much. :)




Luckily Morgan got to party with some other relatives (she was getting pretty bored with us), spending a night at Grandma Andrus's and then at her dad's. We joined the Gee Christmas Eve party. We enjoyed caroling with Belle and Ainsley on our laps. I'm in the red hat.


After caroling, we had dinner at the Moss's and then headed home. We watched While You Were Sleeping and then went to bed. When we woke up, we got things ready for the kids and then got ready for church. But, when we got to church, no one was there. Church had been cancelled due to the blizzard. I admit I was relieved, because I was supposed to sing in this musical number and two of the three women were sick, so I was pretty worried about how it was going to sound. We headed home and Kory spent an hour or so shoveling and helping the kids get back to our house.

Once everyone was together, we opened presents!










After presents, Kory made a delicious dinner and the older kids eventually all made it over. We were happy to have the whole family together! After dinner, people napped, played with toys, etc. Then we all joined up for a couple of hours of games. What a great Christmas!

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