Christmas activities

There are benefits to living in a small town. For example, tonight our little town had the businesses along Main Street all decorated in lights and people came out to drink hot chocolate, hear carolers, the kids made Christmas ornaments, and they got to visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus! It was cool outside (in the high 60's) so it was a great night for this to happen. Libby and I stopped on the way home and after about an hour we headed home to have dinner with Ryan.

Today is also a very special day...today is the 17th birthday of my wonderful and beautiful niece Elizabeth. Libby and I gave her a call and got to talk to her for about 20 minutes. She seemed to have had a pretty good birthday which makes me very happy. I just hate living so far away from her. I wish I lived closer so that we got to hang out more, so that I could attend the performances of both of my very talented nieces, and get to spend special times like today together!