Only 363 days until Christmas!!

I love Christmas - just in case anyone missed that memo!! In fact I love December. I am so blessed to have most of my family living really close to us and that we get to see them all often. I don't see my brother much and he lives fairly close but I guess we are both just too busy. Kind of weird though. We get to see Wayne's siblings almost every week, sometimes we skip a week of visiting for various reasons but we always see them at least once a month. It's nice to continue our relationship with them even as adults. It gets kind of hard sometimes because of the age difference in our kids but we make an effort and that's great.

Christmas was awesome this year - even though it was a bit different than previous. We were invited to Tyler and Karies in the morning to see what "Santa" had brought to the little girls. Syd looks so grown up with her new ipod! Savannah got an awesome little trike. Hopefully Ty and Karie will post pictures of it! Then we came home and waited for the rest of the kids to come by. The snow storm came in strong and overwhelming. It made for dangerous driving, I'm glad the kids all made it here safely. We ate, opened presented, talked and played. We had a great time. We gave Brandon the new Guitar Hero World Tour and he was kind enough to let everyone have a turn. Even Wayne sang which is pretty amazing in and of itself! Both sets of parents came to our house to visit this year (that was the different part). As hard as it is to transition to new traditions, I hope everyone had a great Christmas being with family. We missed Hayan this year, as she's in Korea with her parents. I hope she knows just how much we missed having her here with us. Maybe next year. Due to the crazy storm, Brandon and Jocelyn and Zach all stayed the night here and headed out the next day. Actually Zach stayed and spent the day with me. It was nice to have some good old fashioned mother/son time. He helped me "undecorate" the tree. We watched a movied and just chatted. It was nice to have some time with him, he's been so busy with school lately. It was a great Christmas at the Sexton house and I hope our family all feels the same. Tyler and Karie were so kind to share their little family Christmas with us. Thanks guys, you're awesome!