Saturday- sea world with our little family, my favorite was seeing the dolphins being fed, they would twirl and jump for fish. Lily was old enough for the electric Eel, giant roller coaster.
Sunday- played my piece I have been working on in church, I like to learn a new one every year, this was Sally Deford's "Once in a Royal David City" We also had the Christmas story acted out with Lily as Mary.
Monday- Christmas we had the most relaxing dinner party, Lily and I decorated the table fancy, and we had a table for 19. It was such a relaxing night for me. One of the families brought drinks for "19 but there are a lot of children" which I said meaning plan on less, they took it the other direction, and we had about 6 gallons of egg nog, punch, and ice water. We all laughed about that, they were really good sports. We put the 4 older girls in charge of the Christmas pageant, told Christmas memories, and sang hymns, it was the perfect Christmas Eve. Thank you all for coming!! Gary used the rotisserie for our Ham; it smelled so yummy.
Monday- we had quiet Christmas with the family. The kiddos got up too early to check whether Santa had come, and we had fun all morning. Lunch was at grandmas, and I even got to take a nice nap. Lily got some "matching clothes" to go with her new American girl doll.
Tuesday- we cleaned up a bit, vacuumed the car and sent older kids to the airport to pick up our cousins
Wednesday- we headed to Galveston to play, go through the pirate museum, ride across the bay on the ferry, and check out the tree streets. It was cold, but nice to be with cousins
Thursday- woke up with a nail in my tire, yuck, but better in the driveway than at Sea world or Galveston, luckily I turned over the tire task to Uncle Troy and Grandpa.
