'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Here are a few pics of our Christmas Eve.

We enjoyed a GREAT ham dinner!

New Christmas Jammies!!

Someone fell asleep too soon and wouldn't pose for a picture.

. . . and to all a good night!!!

An "F" in Blogger 101

Okay, so who in the world can keep up with blogging this time of year? I'm feeling a little guilty because I haven't recorded anyting about our Thanksgiving this year and it is already Christmas! Not only that, but I started to post about that wonderful day, only to realize I didn't get any pictures of it. I think I was getting a "C" in Blogging, but that really put me below passing.

To absolve me from this guilt I've been feeling, I have to say that we spent a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday this year in St. Charles with Rob's family. There were lots of family there including Rob's Grandma Lammering and his Aunt Jane and her family. The kids and I even met new family for the first time. We also missed 3 of Rob's brothers, too. We are so blessed to have such great families.

We followed Turkey Day by participating in Black Friday. We made it without injury. If you go with the right attitude, it sure can be a blast!

Houston Trip

I have a little more catching up to do.

Three weekends ago, the kids had Friday off of school. SOOO, what do the Glasgow's do when there is time off? We get out of DODGE, of course! Only this time, Dad couldn't go with us. I was desperately needing a therapeutic visit with my sisters. My children are great "car trippers," therefore I decided the kids and I would go visit my sister Steph in Houston. Another sister, Michelle, had already planned on being in Houston as well. I packed everyone up and left Rob at home to do work and bishop stuff. The kids travelled so well--thanks to the invention of DVD systems in cars--but Austin really got upset when we managed to arrive in Houston right at rush hour--yay for my planning!

It was such a fun weekend. Steph, Michelle and I started off the weekend by piling in Stephanie's big cozy bed and watched The Office. The next day we went running, sewed aprons for the kids, celebrated my bro's-in-law birthday at a fanatastic Mexican restaurant called Alicia's, ate too much cake, and made one more apron for Michelle, who felt left out of our plan to make aprons. The cousins played tirelessly together. The time to leave came way too fast, but I guess my kids have to attend something called school, and they travelled wonderfully back home to our dad.

I was thinking on the way home about my relationships with my siblings. How blessed am I to have them?!!! The thought entered my mind that maybe I knew them personally in the pre-existence. I don't know for sure, but I'd like to think so. Maybe in some way we were meant to help each other and support each other on our way back home. I think of them as teammates. I love how different we are from each other yet somehow the same in many ways. And our differences don't mean disagreements or hositilities (anymore), but I like them because of their differences. Can you tell I had a long time to think in the car?