Merry Christmas!!!

See those teeth? Just the sweetest smile ever!

finished product!

Jeremy and Brooke working on the gingerbread house!

fun in the snow! Need I say more?

Merry CHRISTmas!! Wow, it's been a busy month! We've been just getting ready for the holidays, working up until last week and getting together with friends and family! Our Cantata was the 14th at our church and went really well! Isaac and his choir behaved well and performed well, too! It was so fun singing with Brooke and Isaac through the whole thing! The message was great, too. It was called "Christmas on the Air". Christmas Eve, we went to church and then to Jeremy's mom's house for pizza and presents and good fellowship. We got home late from there, put everyone to bed and got all the presents out! I got to bed about 1am only to be wakened by the dog at 1:30 and put him back outside... I woke up at 6:15am and couldn't go back to sleep, so I woke up and put Erin's kitchen set together (was too tired to do it the night before:)), and by that time, Amber, Brooke and Curtis were all awake. So, about 8am we woke up the little ones! What fun opening presents! We had a little sweaty moment when I couldn't find Brooke's "main" present (it was buried under my work clothes in my closet!), but were all relieved to find it! Amber got money (towards a laptop), a dress, some perfume/body spray, etc. Brooke got a cell phone (added on to our plan), 2 turtlenecks, a movie, a sweatshirt/pullover, body spray/perfume, Curt: an MP3 player, game for the WII, game for his PSP, a sweatshirt he wanted, a game to share with Isaac who got a remote control dinosaur, a game for PSP and DS and WII, a webkinz; Erin got her kitchen, a barbie head to do hair do's on, a vet hospital, and a kitty and stuffed horse; Lyndsay got a walker/stroller for her baby, a baby doll, a key that sings and makes lots of noise, and some ring toy. They got a few other small things/games and are having fun with everything! It was fun just hanging out yesterday and watching everyone. Amber, Brooke and Curt left at 11am to go to their dad's (Curt and Brooke are there for a week) to open more presents! Yesterday afternoon, we all took a nap. Erin fell asleep around 3pm and was snoring louder than her dad and didn't wake up til 7pm! So cute! She's busy cooking chicken right now in her kitchen!

Christmas Eve, at mom-in-law's, Lyndsay took a few steps for everyone to see - she's so funny. So, last night, we were showing her how to use the stroller/walker and she started going across the room with it! So, in between, she'd take a few steps here and there on her own! Uh-Oh, we're going to be in trouble! She does what we call the "Lyndsay shuffle" by sitting on one knee, with her other leg bent out in front with foot on the floor, then she pulls herself across the room with the one leg! It's funny and she goes pretty fast! She has 4 teeth coming in on top, 2 faster than the others (one front and one eye), so she looks super cute when smiling!

Jeremy and I are now off until the end of January and are supposed to go back for 1 month and then laid off again for another week, so far.... Who knows what will happen next in the General Motors saga... Yes, we are a bit nervous, but God is in control and will take care of us no matter what! As long as we have each other! We are going to tackle remodeling our main bathroom starting today and get that done so we can put our house on the market and get one step closer to moving to Millington... So, I will post some pictures and then am off to start demo!

Have a great week, and I'll be posting more now that I'm off!