Christmas Eve

Before I get started I would like to ask everyone to say a prayer for my brother Ben. He broke two bones in his leg today and is having surgery tomorrow (Thursday) morning. The breaks were down by his ankle. The recovery process will take about 6 six weeks. He has a very talented doctor working on him tomorrow and with God guiding him I know he will be just fine.

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! I know I sure did. Ryan and I spent 4 wonderful days surrounded by friends and family. We spent Christmas Eve and the 26th with Ryan's family in Perry. The snowstorm (or the 2009 blizzard as the news stations called it) came in on the 24th. We decided to stay in Perry that night and wait until the roads were cleared in the morning. If the wind hadn't blown all day the roads would have been a lot better. It was the snow drifts that kept getting people in trouble. My brother Jake called and told us to stay. He had to pull my brother out of a snow drift and then like 9 other people on his way home.

Below are some pictures of the day.

Below: Grayson was in the middle of eating some oatmeal and saw the orange light of my camera and struck a pose.

Below: Kelly is mad that I beat him in our contest. (Don't even try to argue Kelly, you know I totally whipped you!)

Below: Ryan got to help Grayson open all of his presents. Grayson made out pretty good this year!
Below: Kirk is opening one of his gifts. I was sneaky and caught a picture of him without him knowing.
Below: Alyssa had so much fun opening all of her presents. I think the majority of them under the tree were hers.
Below: Marianne opening her gift from "Santa". Have you figured out who that is from yet?
Below: I am opening my gifts from Kelly. He got me this really neat expensive perfume that is my FAVORITE!! Below is the wine rack he got me. So cool!
Below: Alyssa received this puzzle as a gift and was so excited after she put it together that she wanted her picture taken by it.
Below: Gryason received these really neat puppets from Uncle Greg. I was in the other room and kept hearing Grayson laughing (his laugh anyways... he doesn't really laugh, it is kind of a screech). I came in and Uncle Ryan and Grayson were playing with this duck. I have never seen Grayson laugh this hard. It was SO funny.

Below: Greg opening his presents from Mike.
Below: Mike is opening his presents from me. He kept posing in all of his pictures.
Below: Mike would always comment about the entire family wearing orange, so I got him an orange shirt so he would fit in while he was in Oklahoma.

In the next few days I will be posting pictures from our other Christmas adventures. I hope 2009 has treated you all well and that many great things are to come in 2010.