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Merry Christmas!

I love Christmas!  It is such a beautiful season and there is simply nothing more beautiful than celebrating the birth of Jesus.  We are so thankful that we were able to spend Christmas with our family again up in Calgary.  We were amazed that once again we were blessed to be able to spend Christmas with Drew's Grandma - 96 years old and made the flight from Detroit to Calgary to be with us all.  On Christmas Eve we went to the service at Drew's old church.  It was packed - we probably should have gotten there much earlier as it was a trick to find seats!  The kids happily went to bed early and were thrilled to wake up to Calgary Christmas the next day.  The boys recaped the Christmas story,  and we opened presents at Drew's dads house and then left for Airdrie to open presents where my mom was staying and get ready for Drew's family to arrive for Christmas 'dinner.'  We had a great night together and the kids enjoyed playing games and tricks on all the grown ups while we visited.

Post Christmas Eve Service

Christmas morning

Trying on one of Grandpa's gifts mustaches


Opening Granny's gifts

At Grandma's...

Helping Grandma open and early birthday present.  Eliza loved opening gifts....and in the couple days leading up to Christmas could be found opening any gifts she could get her hands on!

Sam loves lego!

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