Merry Christmas to you!

The hustle and bustle of Christmas morning has passed and the house is now quiet. The lights on the tree are twinkling. It is raining outside and we are nestled into the couch cushions watching A Christmas Story (it's on for 24 hours). Mikayla is on her boppy lounger sporting her "Baby's first Christmas" outfit, Willie on his bed gnawing on his new favorite toy he got from Santa in his stocking. And Jon and I are toasting each other with rum drinks. Our hearts are filled with so much love and joy and we are so happy today to be spending our daughter Mikayla's first Christmas with her. What a wonderful gift she is to us. We are forever thankful and happy. While the four of us sit and enjoy the rest of the day we are also reminded what Christmas means. To us it means that we are happiest when we are with each other. The gift of love and friendship is worth more than anything material. With that said, we are thankful to have such great friends and family and we thank you all for making our lives more fulfilled. We wish you a Merry Christmas and we hope to see all of you in the new year, 2009!