Dear Santa...

Well...needless to say, the princess has been bouncing around with excitement the past 2 weeks, waiting for Santa! We went to Grandpa's for Christmas Eve and the "real" Santa (according to her highness) stopped in to sing carols and chat with the kids and hand out some small packages.
She LOVED it! She has totally thrown herself into the holiday, she hung the majority of the ornaments on our big tree and helped wrap a big share of our gifts. Pat promoted her to management in the holiday family program, she is VP of Gift Giving and Director of Wrapping!
My sister offered to give her a better promotion if she came to her house and help - to President of Cleaning! (The princess got the giggles about her options!)

The "Prince" is really growing up. He has a car now...I am not ready for this one! It's older, but not bad for a first car! A little rust here and there...a few paint chips, but better than walking in the cold weather!

So far, our holiday gatherings have been fun, however a few family members had been bit by an intestinal flu bug and then poor Grandma got sick after Christmas day...hopefully no one else gets the flu bug!

We are looking forward to the bowl games and cheering on our favorite team!
Happy New Year everyone!