Hats, Hats, Hats!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This year for Christmas, our missionary, Lyle, sent us all these great hats from Madeira. We just had to pose with them on. We actually wore them when we went to look at Christmas lights one night. There is this great house that you have to get out of the car and walk around because it has so many neat things to see. The weather was freezing and our hats kept us nice and warm. Of course our jackets and gloves helped as well...
We spent the holiday with our kids, grandson, my parents, and my sister. We ate and ate and ate and we STILL have food around. We played almost all our new games - Pictionary, Don't Forget the Lyrics, Trivial Pursuit 80's, Beatles Monopoly - we napped, and we even sang some Christmas carols. We also revealed our Secret Santa's, a tradition we have been sharing with our neighbors, Geri and Kirk Clements and family, for about 7 or 8 years. We enjoyed the story of the birth of our Savior shared once again by our children and we marveled at the love and blessings we have. It has been a truly blessed year.