Christmas Morning!

We just finished breakfast and are getting ready to head over to Sara's parents. All the gifts are opened, and everyone is still playing. Mom's, Pop's & Amy's gifts for the girls were so nice! Virginia especially loved the toy spice rack. We also opened the presents from Jacob & Dawn and Justin & Jenni this morning! The little puppies from Jacob & Dawn are irresistably cute and the blankets and pillows from Justin & Jenni (made by Jenni I suspect?) are beautiful! Thank you so much! Everything is so nice!

Sara and I exchanged homemade gifts. Sara made me a spectacular gray scarf with a really neat celtic knot-work pattern, and I made her a little set of painted houses (like the one's Mom has above the door between her kitchen & living room...that's where I got the idea). I made one of her family's log home, one of our Church, and one of the bed and breakfast where we spent our honeymoon.

Virginia got a doll with a stroller and Miriam's big gift was a little castle to put blocks in.

Remember a few weeks back the topic was digging in dumpsters? Well, I got a really nice Little Tikes Kitchen set, with oven & microwave & sink and all out of somebody's trash pile on Friday! All I had to do was clean it up a little and Virginia is thrilled with it.

Oh, and we also gave Virginia a rocking chair that belonged to Sara when she was a toddler. It had a few broken parts and needed to be reglued and stained, so I had been working on that for the last few weeks.

All in all, Christmas is off to a great start!

Hope everyone is having a merry Christmas! We will be out of the house for most of the afternoon, but I'm still planning to call Mom & Pop today!

Love and Thanks from Luke & Sara & Virginia & Miriam!