What a Christmas! When you don't live around family and get to enjoy their company, your friends and neighbors become your family. Christmas Eve we made cookies with our neighbors and then went with them to deliver the cookies to our neighbors. It was the funniest Christmas carolling I have ever done!!!!! George (next door neighbor whose kids are Nicholas and Brooke who we ALWAYS talk about) he brought his BIG keyboard and when the neighbors would answer their door he would hit a button and it would start playing jingle bells and we would sing along! It was so funny to see George with this HUGE keyboard resting on his shoulder like the good old days "ghetto blasters" he he he! We all had Santa hats or reindeer antlers on...very funny sight. The best was when he hit the wrong button and the keyboard started to play Titanic :) The kids got a kick out of that! :) 
Then we were off to our dear friends the Whetmans, they are a young family with 3 kids ages 14, 11, and 1 1/2 years....it is so sad because Jeff is this amazing man who has been our E.Q. president, our home teacher, he has been on the High Council, etc. and right now he is battling cancer. It started in a lymph node in his leg and has recently spread throughout his stomach, liver, and brain. Our ward has really been fasting and praying for his family. Our Compassionate Service Leader came up with a very cute idea...she had a bunch of us bring the different parts to their Christmas dinner and gave each of us a piece of the nativity and so as we brought our part of the meal they also added to the nativity. A bunch of us were there at the same time and sang Silent Night...I had to fight back the tears. What a neat evening, we continue to pray for them.
Christmas Eve night we went to the Lopez home for some egg
nog, bingo, gift exchange and a wonderful dinner. The
Dowdys and Slaughters were there. Then we hurried home in time to catch "Santa" looking in our window checking to see if our kids were in bed! He had a little stuffed animal for the kids to help them get to sleep. This is the second year in a row that we have "caught" him!
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You have such wonderful neighbors and friends to celebrate with during the holidays! Thanks for the updates and darling video! It is so fun to see the pictures of the kids on Christmas...we feel like we didn't miss out completely! Love you and thanks again for our wonderful gift!!!! We are already adding to the account and it now seems like a reality...that we can actually get to Rome! Oh, and I LOVE your food storage shelves! Love you!
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