Our first** Christmas together!!!

This Christmas has been a super exciting one. We have moved into our new home, and have been working so hard on getting it clean(!!!), organized how we want, and repairing some of the half-somethinged-jobs done around it. So it was super exciting when we got our Christmas tree and decorated it too. It looks beautiful in our front room, and personally I'm fairly reluctant to get rid of it. I have heard that you can plant them again, and I think I want to try and do so in our back yard to forever remember this momentous occasion.

Janet got a "new" job at the beginning of December. Basically it's the same job, only full time, so she has been getting used to the full time hours there. It's pretty taxing because of how much traveling she has to do for it, but she loves it. They were very kind and gave her three days off for Christmas. She ended up taking another day off so that we could go and visit her parents in Raleigh, and my brother Brian and his family in Williamsburg. It was an incredible trip. Janet's parents have a beautiful new home despite the smallness of the yard. It's very open and inviting inside. We had a wonderful time with them as we enjoyed the beautiful December weather and the winter flowers that were blooming everywhere. On Christmas eve we opened one gift each and that was our awesome Christmas PJ's. Then we read Poochy the Christmas Pup... a Bohn family tradition.

On Christmas morning we woke up and opened our presents, then we had french toast (a Bealer family tradition), went to church, and afterwards we had a lunch party with Janet's parents and some of their friends. We had to cut out of that a little early to drive out to Williamsburg to see Brian and Mandy and their kids. It was so much fun playing with their kids!! They are so crazy and so fun! Brock and Hayden say the cutest and craziest things. They all warmed up so quickly to Aunt Janet, and they couldn't leave her alone, which she loved. Hayden kept correcting us when we tried to call her Auntie Janet... "Noo, she's AUNT Janet!". She got together with Milaya and Hali and they attacked me with their make-up.

I'm so pretty!

It was good that Janet and I were there. Brian's back was hurting him pretty bad, and Janet and I were able to help out a bit. We are glad he felt better quickly, and was really only out for a day. It was such a blessing to visit family. I know that we won't always be able to do that, so we want to do it as much as possible before then.



**Last year Janet wasn't home for Christmas so they had a little Christmas after the actual day. That was after the football game that we went to, so I got to spend that "Christmas" with her.