Christmas with more family

We gather next down south at my parents's. We first had dinner what was as usual wonderful. After too many dishes, we had our photo ops, followed by the opening of the gifts.

My brother in law brought his minorah. It was so pretty and he explained the story behind it.

Christmas at home

Sara made sure we were up VERY early to get to the goodies.

The night before Christmas.....

we are establishing a tradition . First we drove around and looked at the "rich people's" christmas lights. It would have been fun to watch their electric meters go around! When we got home, the girls wrote letters to Santa, and then got silly and wrote letters to each other. Jeff lit the fire and we listened to Christmas music.

Sara's B-day party

Yesterday was Sara's 15th birthday party. We always have it early because it is right after Christmas. We had 5 girls for a sleepover and a lot of gossip and other teen things. I did not know that girls can put down so much food, I really mean chocolate!

We played a came where they were two teams of 3 and they had to decorate one of each team like a Christmas tree w/ things provided. It was really funny because they only had 7 mins to do this. Ruth got to be the judge which made her feel included to an extent.

It is funny how they always find the twister game. This has been used in every party we have had.

First Special Outting

This evening Sara and her boyfriend went to his football banquet. They were both so very nervous and cute. His father is the football coach at another school where he attends. They had a good time but everyone was amazed that Sara was not eatting like the football player, but rather like a mouse...you think? Look at her? When Sara got home, she was so tired that she put on jammies and went straight to bed. The dress~~~~size 0!

Cyn's B-day

....yea yea yea, so I am another year older.....

THE CLAW

Sara got a new splint today at therapy. It is to put equal pressure in streaching out the muscles in the wrist. She wears it 30 mins with the wrist bent down, and 30 minutes with it bent up. This is supposed to be 3X a day, but due to school and soccer, we are lucky if it is once a day. She tries to do the other exercised during school, which is mostly flexability.