Post Christmas Run-down

Sorry it's been so long since I've gotten a post up (as if someone may have missed me). :-)

Our Christmas season was a whirlwind of activity starting at noon on Christmas Eve.

Mom P. made some amazing prime-rib for our Christmas Eve lunch. That afternoon we opened presents with Heidi's brothers & sisters. Heidi surprised me with a DeWalt 4 piece 18V battery tool set! Now I'm ready to tackle projects around the house armed with a hammer-drill, a circular saw, a reciprocating saw, and a flashlight. :-) Very cool.

I played Settlers of Catan for the first time. Heidi & I were a team and we managed to squeak out a win! We spent the night at Max & Mary's and went to church on Christmas morning.

Right after church it was back to Max & Mary's for the Dolly Schick family Christmas. I managed to get a wet/dry vac from the White Elephant grab due to Jason Schick's kind heart! :-) Thanks to Scott for bringing a sweet gift to the white elephant grab.

Friday I worked around the house a little bit sealing up our storm windows. Heidi & I went into Peoria to make sure the camera I got her for Christmas was the one she wanted. We went to Peoria Camera Shop to get educated. We decided the one I bought her was our best option right now. Both our camera's had seen better days, so we're excited to have a camera that functions correctly.

Friday evening was the big Schick Christmas with all of Heidi's great-aunts & uncles.

Saturday morning I went and looked a foreclosure with my dad in Eureka, and at noon we had the Pfaffmann Christmas at Max & Mary's (notice Max & Mary's house got used a lot this Christmas!). We had to leave that Christmas a little early to hurry over to my parents house for the Knapp Christmas on Saturday evening.

Now we've got one more Christmas left on January 3rd. We're making the trek to Lester to have the big Knoblock Christmas. Last year I think we had just shy of 150 people! That's just my mom's brothers and sisters and their families. My grandma will have Great-Great-Granddaughters at this Christmas!

Through it all I stand in awe that our God, the God who breathed the universe into existence, was willing to come to earth and bind himself in the form of a baby. The drastic power difference between our God and a human baby is incomprehensible. Yet our creator loved us that much.

Praise Him!