Merry Christmas 2013

I love this time of year! Family is most important to me and it is great to have a time of year that is basically designated family time. Not only do I get to spend time with the people I love most, we get to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! He is truly the reason for the season and I am so grateful to him for all that he has blessed me with.


We spent most of the day playing. While we don't have a lot of pictures from it, we do have some great memories starting on Christmas Eve…

Kasila decided that ripping the paper was more fun than just carrying present around like she previously had been doing. Because of that, I got an early Christmas present from Ashley on Christmas Eve. Lucky for me, the new scarf matched my outfit for the evening perfectly!

Christmas morning/afternoon was spent Skyping with both sides of the family and taking the traditional Christmas nap. We had to be up early due to the 2 hour time difference between us and everyone else. 6:30am and I are not friends to those who know me and my love of sleep, even with having Kasila. (Scott has been a great husband and has been the one to get up her in the mornings. He prefers to have a happy, rested wife. ) We took our family nap around 8:30-9:00am. It was lovely. :) 

Kasila starting to unwrap her presents.

I'm pretty sure my Aunt Duie went and found the noisiest toy she could possibly find for Kasila! I'm ok with it and Kasila really likes the keyboard. She will take her pointer finger and press keys individually. I'm hoping that means that we will have a willing musician!

The evening was spent with some close friends. We enjoyed a fabulous meal and some friendly competitive rounds of "Scategories," which I won 2 of the 3 rounds.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from us to you!