Merry Christmas!!

Today we are celebrating Jesus' birth. It is a wonderful time with family and friends. We are in Troutdale right now, enjoying the calm after the storm. The boys are playing with their many toys from Santa, mom is taking a nap, Dad and Marc are having their first Christmas Jack & Coke, and here I am on the computer. I feel as if I have been going a hundred miles an hour lately, so it is nice to be able to sit and relax, I don't have any laundry to do and I don't have errands to run!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas, enjoy this time together, because as we were reminded this past week, time with family is limited. As many of you know we lost a wonderful man last week, Jim "Gramps" Baker. I am thankful to be able to say that I thought of him as if he were my "blood" grandpa. He was at all of my volleyball and softball games in high school and he and Gram even drove all the way to Salem to see Marc and I get married. He will be missed, but I am comforted in knowing that he isn't hurting anymore and he is with Jeff now! Thank you Bakers, Traxlers and Lucas' for sharing such a kind, wonderful and loving man!

I'm outta here, Feliz Navidad!!