Welcome to 2011! We hope this new year finds everyone happy, healthy, and ready to take on new adventures.
We had a very busy Christmas holiday making it four family filled days. We started the holidays celebrating Mike's 34th birthday on December 23rd. To do this, we spent the day doing 34 random acts of kindness which included dropping cookies and donuts off at various village places, giving away lotto tickets to random people, donating food to a pantry, visiting my mom at work and dropping off many things at the hospital, and so many more things. It was great to see the reaction people had and felt good to give back, even in a little way. Then on the 24th we had Christmas dinner with Mike's cousin Paul and his family. Raegan got her first Christmas presents there and was excited to open them. The candle-light church service, which is a family tradition, was made even better sharing it with Rae. She fought sleep, but finally fell asleep about halfway through. Mike and I woke up Christmas morning and were able to share a moment to ourselves without other family there. Once Raegan got up, it was time for Mike's mom and her family to come over and celebrate. Raegan was very spoiled, but very good through it all. We had a quick stop by my parents and then off to Grams for Christmas dinner. Raegan had fun trying to open everyone's presents and love playing with all the boxes. The day after Christmas found us at Mike's dad's house celebrating with them. All-in-all we had a great bunch of days spent with family, which is really the most important thing.
