Merry Christmas

We had a fun Christmas here in Mississippi. We had a lazy morning than kallee and the kids came over all excited to open more presents. Carter got a scooter, and a toy truck. Karlee, and Kara got a stuffed dog to play with. Krislee got an ipod. Then they all got piggy banks with some money in it to go to Disney World in January. I made some pillows for the girls from an old blanket my grandma had made me. And I had this idea to make a blanket with some of Rich's hats. To say the least the blanket is unique. I hope everybody had a good Christmas. Hope this next year is a great one for everybody.

Ward Christmas Pary

We had our ward Christmas party tonight. It was cute and simple. We had a potluck dinner with the ward furnishing the ham, funeral potatoes and rolls. Kallee had me make the potatoes. We figured we would need 4 big pans. Needless to say we planned way to much. We had 12 bags of hashbrowns. We had 2 pans left over. We sang Christmas songs and the primary kids dressed up as Mrs. Clause read the Christmas Story Luke 2. After, the kids got to sit on Santa's lap. Here is a classic picture of Ellie sitting on Santa's lap.

Snow In Mississippi

We had snow today. We received about 21/2 inches. It was pretty wet, but I did get out and make 2 snowmen. Here are some pictures. For all of you in snow country this may not be much, but here in the south it is pretty rare.

Christmas Float

Our ward put a float in the Brandon Christmas parade. Kallee got this started last year. This year there were lots more people involved. They taped candy to pass along cards, pamplets and passed out a few The Lamb Of God videos. It was fun to ride on the float and wave and wish people a Merry Christmas. People didn't boo us and were quite friendly. Living in the bible belt sometimes we don't get a good reception. We had cookies and hot chocolate after the parade. Here a a couple of pictures of our float. It is a night time parade so you have to have lights.