Hello "2009"

Belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our friends and family, I hope you were all blessed by the season and are looking forward to 2009.

I left off at the beginning of November so I’ll start with Thanksgiving; it was quiet this year, we ate, played games and watched sports. We were thankful for the day and to be together with family. The girls each had a leg off the turkey, Zoe cleaned the bone; we call her our carnivore. Sophia took one lick of her leg and said “I NO LIKE TURKEY” and asked for a cookie. Our holiday activities kept us really busy, between the girl’s school parties and special holiday programs etc November and December went by quickly. We were unable to take a summer vacation due to Marks work and school schedule so we took a few days in December to go on a Disney Cruise! It was really great! We loved swimming outside at Disney with Christmas decoration all around. We were able to catch up with old friends in Orlando and we even made some new friends on the cruise. I want to apologize to everyone we or should I say I didn’t send Christmas cards this year. We so enjoyed seeing all of yours and thank you for thinking of us and sharing your holiday wishes. I promise I will be sending cards again next year. I don’t have a good excuse except I was cutting down on our carbon footprint, maybe going a little green; No, no good excuse.

Mark only had to work on Christmas day this year instead of Christmas Eve, Christmas day and the day after for the first time in 5 years! So we got the girls up around 5am to wish Jesus a happy birthday and open their gifts. We are blessed with two children who want for nothing and are satisfied, content and elated over everything. The girls opened their stockings and they were good! I couldn’t have asked for two sweeter children. As gifts were exchanged this year I realized that I was viewing the heirlooms of the future for our family. I was grateful to be part of it and I hope to retell it in the years to come when those gifts are passed on.

Sophia turned 3 on December 30th; it is so hard to believe how fast the last 3 years have gone by. Sophia loves animals, penguins are her favorite and she has a nice collection she sleeps with every night. I thought the Zoo was the perfect choice for Sophia’s party this year. It was New Years Eve and there was lots of activities going on at the Zoo too; who new it was going to be 16 degrees with the wind chill and snowing, snowing hard! Thank you to all of our friends and family who braved the elements to share the day with us. I feel the love!

2008 for our family had a lot of ups and downs, we laughed, we cried and we lived the best we could. I’m looking forward to 2009 and I wish each of you a healthy happy year.
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Love,
Celeste