Christmas 2007!

We enjoyed a beautiful, white Christmas in Olathe, KS this year! We arrived on Saturday, the 23rd on a snow covered runway at KCI airport after being delayed in Minnesota for a long time! It was good to land safely on the ground and see Jamie's Dad, Mom and sister Dawn right away! We attended College Church of the Nazarene on Sunday and saw a lot of friends and family we hadn't seen in a very long time.

We went back for the Christmas Eve candlelight service and then

went to Jamie's Aunt Bonnie's house to celebrate with the Ellis clan. We had a great dinner and a really fun gift exchange. We all drew numbers and had to pick gifts or steal from folks that had already opened. Randy had his gifts stolen about six times, but ended up with a gift certificate to the Pottery Barn. Jamie went last so she had the pick of the litter and grabbed a Bath and Body Works gift certificate. We had a great time and it was good to see most of the Ellis' including Grandpa Earl.It was also Jamie's sister Dawn's 22nd Birthday!

We also had a bit of a Christmas miracle when the package that had most of the Christmas gifts from us arrived on the door step Christmas Eve night. Way to go US Postal Service!! We were sweating a bit but it all worked out, we just had to stay up late to wrap all the gifts.

We woke up Christmas morning to white snow on the ground and plenty of gifts under the tree. We had breakfast and exchanged gifts before getting ready to go to Jamie's Aunt Susie's house for dinner and more gift exchanging. We had a great lunch and so much fun play Wii and singing Karaoke. We spent much of the day there and had so much fun visiting with the Stansbury's and Fraley's. Grandma Marge was really sick but was a trooper and stuck it out.

We are enjoying being off work, being with family as well as seeing Kansas City at Christmas time! It was a great and memorable Christmas!!