Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  We were very thankful to be able to spend the holiday’s at home and with all of our family.  Mark and his sisters were able to spend Christmas Eve with their dad and he took them out to look at Christmas lights around town before he brought them home.  Christmas day the kids went with their dad to his mother and father’s in the early afternoon then that evening his dad brought them home and all of us went to Uncle Dave’s house where all of Mark’s mother’s side of the family gets together.  There is lots of cousins, aunts and uncles.  My guess is that there is about 30 – 40 of us.  For New Year’s, Mark’s Aunt Cassandra had us over and Mark was able to spend the night.  It was a great Christmas break and now we are trying to get back into our regular routine.  That part isn’t near as much fun!