Christmas Day

On Christmas night, Mark and I skyped Jen and Sam and the boys and watched them open their gifts.  That took all of five minutes.  We enjoyed it and were able to watch Ethan pass his new football to dad.  Christmas and kids make my holidays complete.  We had to stay up until 11 PM our time but so worth the wait.  Before we did that however, we decided to go to town to see the lights we had been hearing about.  All of our previous trips had been during the day.  The atmosphere is so festive and so many tourists all over the place checking out all of the streets with light, Christmas scenes and we even saw the energizer bunny.  Wrong season but they were out there with Santa advertising there wares.  Santa was ringing his bell for the money exchange store, good fit !!  We were going to have dinner at a nice hotel or fancy restaurant but they hiked up the prices to $50.00 US, a person, since so many tourist were in town and I refused to spend that much on food.  I could feed a whole orphanage for that.  We decided to try one of the new Mexican places we had seen advertised.  It was pretty good but we still like our other Mexican place a little better and the price was right $12.00 for the meal including a huge bowl of tortilla chips, that is more like it.  Enjoy the pictures and we hope that each of you are blessed this season by what Christ has done for you.