Christmas pictures and warm warm day

I guess I got a bit behind on my blog. Christmas eve was spent together as a family. We ate pizza and watched The Santa Clause. Then we read from Luke 2 and I must say the kids were EXCELLENT. We talked about the Savior and the reason we are here on earth. We went around the room and all said why we were grateful for Christ. It was beautiful and you could really feel the spirit. The lights were dim and we had the fire place going. It was very peaceful. The kids then opened up the gifts from mom and dad. IT was a very nice night.

Christmas morning we woke up to a few more gifts to open. Then we all prepared some food and took it over to our family in Springfield. It was a lot of fun too. I swear I always eat SO MUCH when I am at my sisters. We played pinoccle and the kids played with the new WII that my sisters family got from Santa. Then Don and I had to try it out. I beat him BAD in bowling. Don't tell anyone. But then he got me pretty good on the boxing. I didn't realize how much of a work out it was and we went away from it sweating and sore the next day.

Today was a very warm and beautiful day. Doesn't seem much like winter. It got up to 60 today. So we used it as a day to do a little work. Don went hunting for about 4 hrs. and didn't see a thing. Then he came home and he cute down a tree in our yard. Kids carried the wood and helped clean up an area that had a lot of brush and sticks. We played with the dog and taught her how to bring back the ball when we threw it. He is a very nice dog and I am pretty happy now that we have him. Although I keep calling it a she/her because she looks exactly like on of our dogs growing up. It was a GREAT day. Don wanted to go hunting again tonight but things just got too busy and it is getting quite dark now. I wanted to go with him but we shall see if we can do it for a date night soon.