From Emily

Deer Santa,

I wod lik a IPOD a pink DS, benroos and gliter lava. I hope you got my letr. I hav ben a good girl. My bothrs hav not ben good. They are mean to me. Bing them books, no toys. Love Emily

Emily saw me reading other family blogs and asked who reads ours?? I told her family and friends. She asked if Santa read our blog. Before I could answer, she had decided to write her letter here just to make sure he knew what she wanted for Christmas. She is worried that by not sitting on his lap at the mall, he may not read all of the letters he receives. I have a hard time thinking back to the boys when they were that little. Trying to remember if they were as excited as Emily is. When Nick was Emily's age at Christmas I was pregnant with her and all the boys were asking for that year was a boy baby. LOL

I do know that the boys were excited about yesterday. Yesterday was the last day of school before winter break. The last day of finals, which they have been studying all week. They were looking forward to sleeping in today. They are looking forward to not standing at the bus stop in the cold and rain. It has rained here the last 3 days off and on, but up north in the mountains it has snowed. Tuesday we will take a drive to see the snow. Something Emily is also excited about.

This weekend will be busy for us, today the kids and I baked cookies to give to friends and family. Tonight we have a family Christmas party at Don's work, Saturday the kids will be staying the night with their grandparents in Scottsdale and Don and I have a party to go to that night. Sunday we will have lunch with Don's parents and see his grandmother on his mothers side. Some time on Saturday we will have to go find "gliter lava" for Emily's stocking. I have no idea what this is or where to find it. Guess it will make for an interesting day at the toy stores on Saturday.