Christmas Break

I've taken a Christmas blogging break.  This Christmas season was the busiest of my life, even without working full time.  I added a bunch of other activities to make the season crazy - like building a life-size stable and manger for our church, doing my first ever cookie exchange (needed to bake 8 dozen cookies), making our 2011 Christmas card (never again!), hosting 4 parties, being on our church's Christmas Eve service planning committee, being a wiseman in our church Christmas play (Paul was a wiseman too, and Benny was a camel and Luke a donkey), etc., etc., etc.  I loved every minute of it though, since Christmas is my favorite time of the year.  I will get back to steady blogging in January when life slows down.  I have a lot of catching up to do since Ben and Luke are growing and changing like crazy every day.   Here are some pictures to bridge the gap since my last blog post.
 Our Christmas tree.  I've always wanted a really tall tree!
  I love this tree!

 Just what a baby should look like in a Christmas picture.  This is Benny in his new PJs, eating Christmas wrapping paper.

 Paul and I were the live Mary and Joseph for our Christmas Eve service (sitting in the stable we built)

Luke opening presents on Christmas Eve at Granpa and Grandma Dold's house.  Little does he know, the very first present he is about to unwrap is supposed to be a container full of Legos, but the container was empty!  It was just the storage container, no Legos.  We laughed about that for a long time.  A $30 container.  Aunt Shari saved the day b/c she had a ton of Legos that her girls never use, so she ran home and came back with them for Luke.  He didn't know the difference.  :)

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