Christmas

We hope you had an enjoyable Holiday. We had to work half day on Christmas Eve. Then we went to Children's mass and it was so packed that we had to stand in the doorway of the vestibule. About half way through the service, Marissa said when are we going to church? I had to explain that we were there but there were a lot of people celebrating Jesus' birthday and there was no room for us to sit down. She accepted that, but we did have to hold her the rest of the service. The bonus was that she was infatuated with a cute 3 month old baby and her neurotic mom. (The mom told her mother in law to be very careful with the baby because her dress was very slippery. She also totally freaked out when someone sneezed. I guess I was equally entertained.) After church we went to Mark and Vicki's house for dinner. Marissa got to play with Samuel and Anthony and Rachel.

We came back home and wrote a letter to Santa, left him cookies/milk and carrots for the reindeer. Marissa went off to bed with visions of sugarplums dancing in her head. I was so excited for Christmas that I had to wake Issa up and ask her if she thought Santa had come. She was groggy at first then was stoked when she discovered Santa had left her a new baby doll. She has been taking care of that baby since then. We had a lazy Christmas morning. Then we went to give the boy's their gift. The boy's got a awesome dinosaur from Santa! It eats leaves and growls and....it was so cool. After being sidetracked for an hour we headed over to Tim & Christy's house to have dinner with them and their family. Issa got to spend some time with grandma Jean which was really nice. We have video of the kids playing the Wii. Marissa didn't care about landing the ski jump; just about becoming a snowball. Happy Holidays!

P.S.

Marissa asked me on Christmas day: "When is Jesus going to blow out the candles on his birthday cake?"