Christmas Day

Christmas Morning 2007 will be one that won't soon be forgotten, not for the wonderful presents that everyone got, or the time spent with family, it was the fact that we had no power for just over 10 hours! LOL. Due to horrible Santa Ana winds in the night, a few power lines snapped and fried together sometime around 1:00 am. We had to be flexible and make due, and a few new presents couldn't be adequately played with, like Hannah's new iPod, but it all worked out fine.

We arose and made ourselves 'picture presentable'. And did our stockings in the living room. The stockings were overflowing and it was determined that we need bigger stockings. LOL. I still have a bag of things that didn't get put into the girls' stockings due to no more room. After stockings, we went into the family room for the girls to open presents from us and from their out of state Aunts and Uncles. It was rather strange not having the Christmas tree lights on, or the smell of the coffee pot brewing. And it was even sadder that we couldn't load songs on to Hannah's new iPod because the computers were down, and the CD Drive on our laptop isn't working. Steven could only load one song and a sermon from Pastor Rick that were on the laptop onto her iPod. So for hours she listened to the same one song over and over again and even resorted to listening to a sermon just so she could use her new Christmas gift. LOL. Papa Steve arrived shortly thereafter, bearing even more gifts. Hannah was very excited to receive a Smart Globe and a really cool science thing.It wasn't long after and the rest of the family started to arrive. Gramma and Papa, Uncle Bart, Uncle Robbie and Auntie and ouf course the cousins, Haylee and McKenzie. It wasn't too long after and wrapping paper was flying everywhere! Our family room looked like a bomb went off! Hannah and Rachel got a combined gift from Gramma and Papa, a television/DVD combo unit for their room. Unfortunately, we couldn't hook the TV up right away...thanks to the power outage, but eventually it came back on and the TV went into Hannah's room and they are LOVING it!Once the power came back on, it was full speed ahead for getting Christmas dinner prepared and Robbie busted out his Wii and hooked it up. Soon our family room became the grounds for an in house bowling alley, a baseball diamond, a 9 hole golf course, and a tennis court! Who knew all that would fit into our family room. :) Everyone had so much fun playing the Wii and others had great laughs at watching those playing. We had a great day filled with lots of wonderful gifts and great time with our family. Now, comes the hard part of Christmas...finding homes for all the presents from the last two days!