Memories of Christmas 2008...

*Dancing while Will plays "Jingle Bells" on the piano. The long hall in our house is perfect for running and running down, by the way.

*Making cookies. Delivering cookies. Eating cookies.

*Our 1st annual "Rodgers Christmas Party". Can't wait for next year.

*Watching Sasha cry real tears on Christmas Eve as she clutches the present she is begging us to let her open right then. So funny.

*Having Christmas fall on a Thursday was so cool. Will took Christmas Eve off and didn't go back until Monday. Yay!

*Eating more cookies and other junk food.

*Sledding at the ditch.

*Eating more cookies for breakfast and for dinner last night. Sledding again at the ditch.

*Watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and rewinding the part where Snoopy kisses Lucy and she freaks out. We especially love that part now that we have Casey, the pooch.

*Opening presents Christmas morning and letting Addie open mine and Will's since she had already opened all of hers. She loved the ripping of the wrapping paper, apparently.

*Playing with our new pooch, Casey.

*Taking him outside in the blizzard to go potty and having our neighbors that live behind us tease us at church the next day about it. Ha, ha, ha. Laugh it up.

*Taking the green tree skirt off the tree and putting it away a little early since Casey thinks it is grass........you know what he was doing. Bad poochy.

*Having the Mortons over for pizza and games. "Big Boggle is like a college test", said Tyler. Hee hee hee.

*Having the Smiths over the next day for lunch, getting more pizza and playing more games. Outburst and Balderdash are such fun games. Remember that word that means stinky armpits? So funny!!

*Letting the kids hang out in their pj's all day. I can't do that. I just don't have it in me. I must shower each day, get dressed, and slap some makeup on even if I am not leaving the house.

*Taking some time to work on my scrapbooking! I got behind, for me, anyway. I had not scrapbooked since last January! I usually don't get that far behind, but since I am now homeschooling, I was really starting to get behind. So, I set up camp on our huge kitchen island, and scrapbooked for 2 days. I did 72 pages. I counted them up last night! Funny, huh. Will got me a gift card to Hobby Lobby and I restocked my paper and other supplies! Yay!!

*Ringing in the new year in bed, with pillows over my head, while Casey yipped and barked all night despite me taking him out to go potty many times. He wanted to play, I guess. Not happening, pooch. Last night was a rough night. Sheesh.

*Reading the nativity from the scriptures, and pausing to let the kids fill in the blanks.

*Listening to our ward choir sing last Sunday. Amazing! They sounded beautiful!

*Me playing Christmas carols on the piano and begging my kids to come and sing. How come they don't ever want to do that? Sniff, sniff.

*We had a great holiday. But, it is done and now I think I will go take the decorations down today. School starts on Monday and I am in the zone to get homeschoolin' again......