Merry Christmas Eve!

 We made it to Laguna Beach to 

somehow begin to celebrate our 

first CHRISTmas without our

sweet Dad.  The drive produced

much joy and buckets of tears.

We were praying that we did not

expect too much of ourselves as

Laguna Beach holds TONS of

memories for our family.

 After TONS of help, we finally got everything

to our room and the festivities began!!!!

 We opened several gifts and then

headed to downtown Laguna to

celebrate CHRISTmas Eve with

yummy pizza . . . always our first

night tradition.

The boys gave me my blog published in a

book . . . after a bucketload of tears, they

showed me the dedication page written in

one simple sentence by my Mike . . .

 Happy early birthday Sweet Tim . . . 26!!!!

Sweet and silly pictures of our incredibly

different CHRISTmas!!  We are still the same

family who loves each other so very much, 

but finding new ways to forge very unfamiliar

territory!!!  Now to try and catch some sleep.

We are praying that the salt air will provide

much respite for this very tired crew who

have gone on fumes for several weeks!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS!!!!!