A Fun Christmas Surprise!

Hope you all had a VERY Merry Christmas!  We had a great one here, despite the fact that it was all over much too soon :0(   Andrew will be 10 years old in just 2 days, so I realize I don't have much longer to celebrate Christmas in such a fun and childlike way (although, there will hopefully be grandchildren someday...).  I just love the JOY children bring to Christmas.  Yes, it is all SO very tiring, but the smiles and laughter makes it all SOOOOOO worthwhile.  And the family time we get to enjoy is priceless. 
The biggest highlight this year was snow and sledding on Christmas eve.  We got to go to Christmas eve service with our hair still wet from our time spent sledding together.  Honestly, I'm fairly certain that was one of the best family times we have ever had.  We went to a local park with some huge sledding hills and there weren't many other people there (not many people are crazy enough to go to a park with huge hills on the entrance drive during a snowstorm!).  The snow was pouring out of the sky, and everything was so white and pristine.  I just love how quiet and beautiful it is when the snow is coming down like that.  And our kids had SO MUCH FUN!!!  I can't say I have ever been sledding on Christmas Eve before.  It was certainly worth ignoring the final Christmas preparations that needed to be completed  at home. They got done later... MUCH later :0)