A Very Murry Christmas

What a blessed Christmas we have had! From visiting with extended family to just the four of us (plus one), giving presents and opening presents, talking about Jesus as well as Santa, attending Christmas Eve service and watching our girls in their first performance and eating, eating and more eating has made this week an exciting fun filled blessed time!

Luke, Erin and baby Nate came for breakfast Sunday morning. My mom was still here from the Friday night false alarm, and we enjoyed a nice breakfast and morning playtime before Nate needed a nap. What a sweet little boy he is!!

Hans, Audrey and Henry arrived on Wednesday and spent the night with us. The rest of the Murry crew arrived Thursday. We had a gift exchange with the entire family and then headed over to Uncle Jeff's house for more fun with aunts, uncles and cousins on the Murry side. Emily, Roger and Henry then spent Thursday night and Friday morning with us.

Friday afternoon my Mom and Dad arrived, but due to flu and colds the rest of my family will be getting together sometime later for Christmas celebration and gift exchange.

Friday night we attended the Christmas Eve service where Hannah and Kate made the cutest sheep (yes, this is my completely unbiased opinion). Although Kate knew all the words to the songs and the hand motions she decided to observe a silent night.

Christmas morning was bright and wonderful. The girls slept late and Hannah was amazed that there was no snow. Poor girl, someone needs to explain that the books with snow never accurately represent Southern California. Instead, it was a beautiful day and we played baseball outside with Hannah's new T-ball set and went for a walk around the neighborhood.

I continue to have contractions on and off, and have learned to ignore them until they get strong. After timing them for a while I try to take my mind off of the pain and wait for them to subside...Jeff assures me that one day the contractions will not subside even though I am sure that this baby girl (who still does not have a name!) will just mess with me the next 3 weeks. I have to admit that as much as I want to meet her and to have relief from my aches and pains, I am happy she is not a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day baby. I do think it would be neat to have a New Years Day baby since her birthday would be 1-1-11. Jeff thinks that we would make Yahoo headlines if she were born at 11:11 on 1-1-11 or 1-11-11 at 11:11 (my actual due date is 1-12-11). So, who knows, she may become famous!!