crazy life!

Merry Christmas and happy new year! I have been so busy! we had a great christmas with both our families. we had everyone up to our house on my side of the family for a day in the snow. all the men with the older kids went up and sledded and all the women with the babies stayed at my house. we had a great day and then headed to my sisters for the rest of the weekend. my whole family stayed at my sisters Saturday through monday. we came home to snow! it was so fun to have it snow for Christmas! it just makes it seem really like Christmas when it's white! It continued to snow for the next couple days and was a lot of fun to play in!
then for Christmas eve we went to a great candle lite service at Greater Gresham. Clay sat throught the whole service like a little sweety! we woke up Christmas morning and had a short family time with just the four of us and then headed to David's parents. Our boys are at really fun ages! It was the Best Christmas for us so far! very relaxing and great to reflect on Chirst's Birthday and what that means for all of us! we had plenty of great food and gifts and Thanking God for our friends and family.
For New years we had Preston my brother and his family out to spend the night and play cards. and my parents joined us also! we played cards into the new year and then woke up and watched our sweet little kids play together. we had subsandwiches and then everyone went home for nap time! It's great to have family you like to hang out with. we are very lucky to have all our siblings so close to us! they are our life long friends.
well after the Holidays of course we all came down with a cold and feeling tired. we are now trying to find a rental house and move here in few days. I think we found a place to rent and the packing is going slowly but surley! I am trying not to get stressed or to tired, so that makes the packing go slow. no rush we have a week! evidently we may have some delay with closing due to the buyers of our buyers house. they are having issues and hopefully that won't affect us much. we need God to help us with the timing and getting all the details worked out!
well stay in touch and we will be in sandy soon! Later gotta go clean.