MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Christmas is just around the corner. Only 5 days left. Is your shopping done? Are your stockings hung? Are your plans squared away? Are your Christmas cookies and candies ready to be eaten? It's Christmas time!! Don't forget with all the crazy drivers and gift buying and packed schedules, to take time with the Lord and thank him for begining this wonderful season. Without God sending His Son, the time of the year would not exsist. Read the story for the 50th time and pull something different from it. Sing the carols with a smile on your face. And just remember that someone is going to open their heart to Christ this season, and it just might be because of you! Now that is something to celebrate!

Our plans:
Todd and I have finished shopping and all the presents are wrapped under our 3' tree...or should I say beside our 3' tree. Our traveling plans are set. Oh yes we are traveling, not too far away, but it's always scary being on the road around the holidays. Saturday night we will start our Christmas adventures by driving to Fort Scott, Kansas. This is where Todd's family is from (the Budy family...pronounced Booty...oh yeah). We are going to stay the night with his cool cousins, Jeremy and Amy and their cute kid, Dominick. Then we will have Christmas Eve lunch with the Budy's! Yum yum. After fun family time and lots of food (of course) we will head back to Missouri for Christmas in Cabool. The tradition (same every year and this year is no exception) is to go to the Cabool Second Baptist Church for the candlelight Christmas service and then head over to Grandma Mac's for Christmas Eve Dinner. Then Todd and I will stay at my parents house and wake up Christmas Morning to have our (just the 2 of us) Christmas. Then we will exchange gifts with my family and have breakfast (of course after Santa has already visited Logan at their house, a new tradition for the Walls' is starting). This will be awesome b/c it's the first Christmas with Logan!! Then after breakfast, Todd and I will be on the road again heading to Walnut Grove for the Ferguson Christmas and lunch. And I'm pretty sure after lunch and gifts we will all crash and hang out. And of course play with all the fun toys we get.

Please pray for safety on the road for Todd and I. Also my brother and his family (Rance, Elizabeth, & Logan) will be traveling to Kentucky, so please pray for their safety as well. We will be praying for your Christmas and your safety. God Bless!

Christmas Survey about the one and only Paige

Your Name: Paige
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate ? Hot Chocolate with marshmellows
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa doesn't have wrapping paper. His presents are too big. But if he does have wrapping paper it is brown like paper bag paper.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? I love white lights. However a few people can pull of the mix of colored lights and make it look good.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? YES, from my dog's reindeer antler.
5. When do you put your decorations up? Always after Thanksgiving. I mean do you not understand that it is still pretty fall and pumpkins and leaves are the theme until the harvest. After Thanksgiving, the evergreens and red & greens start to appear.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Oh my goodness, so many to choose from. I will go with my husbands least favorite and my top favorite...stuffing!
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Ok great story...got a minute? It is Christmas morning and us kids (Rance, me and Crystal) and Mom & Dad are opening gifts. My folks give us cash sometimes b/c we would go shopping the day after Christmas in Spfld (big trip back in the day). I put all my cash in a little box on a table beside where I was opening presents. It came time to clean up and throw away all the wrapping paper and take all your goodies to your room. I was going through my stuff about an hour after clean up time and I couldn't find my little box of cash. AHH I freaked. And so did my Parents. Boy were they steaming. Well lucky for us Dad had already taken the trash to the big dumpster at my Mom's Business. So guess were Mom and I headed? Yeap! I crawled in the dumpster and started ripping open trashbags, looking for a small little box. The bumpster luckily dosen't smell it just has broken glass and paint all over it. And guess what, I didn't find the box of money. I was bawling my eyes out. We went back home and I looked through the trash can in the kitchen and I found that stupid little box of cash. Yeap I found it! By this time I felt like a total loser. Needless to say, I have learned my lesson and it is the laugh every Christmas, when cash is given.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don't remember, however I didn't want my parents to know that I knew, just in case Santa would "stop" coming.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? We have Christmas every Christmas Eve with Grandma Mac. So yes we open presents.
10. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it!!!
11. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? CHOCOLATE PIE, anything pumpkin
12. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Exchanging gifts. all the smiles and laughs.
13. What tops your tree? I have an angel with a harp on my little 3' tree.
14. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? Giving is a blast. Opening gifts is fun too.
15. Favorite Christmas memory as an adult? The first Christmas Married to Todd. Just the joy of us two opening gifts by ourselves. He bought me a pair of mudd black shoes and some black socks and I still wear them today (4 years later). I'm sure he bought me something else. But who can remember every gift.