Christmas 2008

I forgot about Christmas.... This year was a bit small in family members. The married children (Jeff and Melissa) spent this year with their in-laws so it was Jaylee,her boyfriend Patrick, Charity and Greg. We did have Dayna (my sister) and her family, Steve's dad & Pauline over for Christmas Eve. We ate lots of food and played Wii. The kids went to a new ice skating rink just around the corner while we fixed dinner. This year was special for us, Patrick spent Christmas morning with us. He read our traditional Christmas story in the morning and we enjoyed having him as part of our family. It was special too because this will be Greg's last Christmas home for 2 years as he will be serving a mission. We bought Jaylee and Patrick Rock Band so we played that or I should say Greg played it. He loved the drums and he sat there most of the day. This Christmas had it's sad moments too as we didn't have mom there to enjoy the fun with us. It is hard to believe sometimes that she is gone. But I know she spent Christmas with Jesus this year and was watching over our family.