Christmas 2009

Our First Christmas without our Sweet Father...We survived. On Christmas Eve we were all together which in itself was a modern day miracle. Kennan came about ten days before with their children and Mike came a few days later. They spent almost a month here, which was really fun. They stayed with the De Gruccio/Skinner clan so we all got to spend a lot of good times with them. We are praying that Mike gets a position closer to us....or just gets a position somewhere would be nice at this point. We had our traditional Lasagna dinner on Christmas Eve with quite a house full. In memory of Dad we all completely stuffed ourselves. We did our traditional "Nativity Story" with all the Grandkids which is always entertaining. Singing Christmas carols in between the scripture version. It was actually a very happy joyful evening, although we missed Dad, I think all of us felt his spirit there through the love and laughter of family surrounding us. We ended the evening with "Christmas Jammies" from Grandma "D" and all the children raced to put them on and take pictures. The evening was full of good food, love for one another and love for our Savior Jesus Christ. I'm sure he had a big smile on his face, what more could he ask for?