Merry Christmas! Hopefully everyone had a great Christmas with friends and family. We are so thankful that God loves us enough to send his son to be born and then die for our sin!!!! We have had an eventful Christmas Break this year! Rylie had her first dance recital and loved every minute of it! Thanks to those of you that came and supported her! She was tapping away and she acted so grown up!!! Once we made it through preschool programs and parties it was time for a break. Craig has three weeks off at Christmas and we had a really fun time together just relaxing. We enjoyed the three days of Christmas with our families. Ella's favorite gift was her Zhu Zhu pet, Rylie loved her dress that had a matching dress for her doll (http://www.alilfluff.blogspot.com/) and of course they loved their pillow pets. My big gift this year from various members of my extended family (and my husband) was a new sewing machine!!! I am working on my first project- a pair of pajama pants. It is fun and challenging at the same time, but I am looking forward to making some fun things for the girls and for friends and family. Rylie and I had the privilege of going to see the Rockettes. Some kind people gave us tickets to go and we had a really fun girl's day!!!! Craig's brother Matt was in town for Christmas so we did a murder mystery dinner with Craig's siblings. It was fun to dress up, hang out together and to hear everyone's new accents. Usually for New Year's Eve we are at the cabin, but we decided to stay home this year. We have some good friends that had moved to McCall and came back. So we had a blast playing games with them and our kids enjoyed having a slumber party!!! We also got to go on a date and at the end of the week, we went to a Stampede game (Craig's team played earlier in the day at the Qwest Arena). Craig is coaching the JV and Varsity this year at Compass. It has been fun to see how much they have improved from last year. I am so proud of him as a coach, but most of all for always having a positive attitude and teaching his guys how to have good character. Happy 2011! We have already seen God provide for us this year and we are waiting in anticipation for all he is going to do in our lives to teach us, grow us closer to Him and use us in other people's lives!
