Wonderful Christmas

What a week!!! Today is finally Friday, December 29, 2006....only 2 more days of 2006 and then comes...2007!!! What excitement!!! We look forward to a year full of HAPPYness!!

Christmas was great....Allison pretty much went to the cleaners for her first Christmas, haha. She received so many great gifts from grandparents, aunts, uncles, great grandparents, godmother, and of course from her mommy and daddy. So many new toys....and the greatest thing about them....they are learning toys. Although she wasn't able to open her gifts herself....(mommy really enjoyed ripping the paper off her gifts) she looked at every new item with amazement, maybe it was the bright colors?

Allison also got to meet her "cousin" Mackenzie (2nd cousin). She lives all the way out on the east coast.....it was so cute seeing Mackenzie looking at Allison and touching her. Grandma White's house was packed and fun like usual...went to Church and took a big family photo. We had everyone there except for my cousin's wife Abbey. Hopefully she'll be able to make it next year...or sometime soon. I'm looking forward to this upcoming summer as I hear quite of a few of us will be in Okoboji, IA for our week long family get together in June/July. So it'll be great to see everyone again.

More news....my brother and his wife are headed off to Panama City, Panama (in central america) for his new job. He accepted the position as Regional Business Manager for LCMS World Mission earlier this year and has been traveling all over latin america. We are very excited for them as they begin a new journey and wish them the best of luck. We may have to plan a trip down south to see them within the next year as we will miss them terribly.

Well, that's about it for now, it's getting late and my bed time! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a Happy and safe New Year!!!

Oh and we uploaded more photos to our online photo album, so just click on the link and check 'em out!!!