Christmas Eve!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, today is the day all kids all over the world have been waiting for! The day when they check their list , not TWICE, but a gazillion times, in their letters to SANTA! HO HO HO! Santa is coming tonight!............We had the annual Fry Christmas Party last night! It was EXCEPTIONALLY great last night b/c we had Patrick there, snapping pictures and laughing and enjoying himself and in much less pain than last week! Of course, he is moving slowly and having to wear his brace all the time, but he's getting used to it. He gave Stefanie her Christmas prezzie early---a new camera--so, they were both making , GET THIS, more pictures than I usually do! HAHA! Pat/Stefanie and Katie were snapping so much it looked like the paparazzi were here!  I don't know if I like that---When I make pictures, I'm NOT IN THEM, I saw some of me that looked pretty hideous ! ( I need to look at them before they put them on MySpace!HAHA).Everytime I turned around I saw flashing! HAHAHA! The pictures I'm putting here I made, I'm not about to load any of those of me on there! HAHAHAHA........First, we ate dinner. Terry ordered a beef tenderloin and we made sandwiches with them. Kadie made a huge  (DELICIOUS) salad to go along with it and we had chips and dips, etc. Terry also had bought some shrimp this past week when he went to Mobile so we also had them. He had boiled them in this strong "crab boil" stuff and the house smelled like a fishery! I had every door and window open yesterday afternoon ! HAHA! Apparently, the kids loved them, they are all gone!  After eating, we went into the den and started the DIRTY SANTA. Some were VERY dirty! HAHAHAHAHA! Everyone took a number from a bowl from 1-12 . Stefanie was #1 so she went first! Then you could either grab a gift from someone OR choose one on the floor that was wrapped. As usual, Dirty Santa, was  hilarious. (I went ahead and gave the little ones a couple of gifts I had for them on Christmas so they would have something to play with).  I think one of the funniest gifts was from Charles and Michael. Bad boys! I thought MY gift, the singing dog, was the cutest. Everyone WANTED the gift from Katie---a Barney coffee set or the one from Stefanie---a WalMart gift card (KADIE stole that from me)!  JON got Charles' Dirty Santa gift! That was the funniest thing EVER! Jon's ears might STILL be red this morning!...... Then, everyone opened their gift from whomever had their name. They got some great stuff! I think MINE and TERRY'S and Natalie's gifts were some of the best! Terry got a Palm Pilot from the kids and I got this die cut machine, called a CRICUT,  for scrapbooking! (the kids went in together and gave Terry and myself our gifts). Kadie had Natalie's name and got her this original painting of an angel for Natalie that is just beautiful! I can't remember what all everyone else got, but I think everyone was very happy with their prezzies!!! After that, we watched a little T.V., then played around with the little ones. They were so cute---Lily in her smocked Christmas dress and Kemp with his new little hair cut! They were so good and sweet---as usual! Charles had a great time teasing Kemp! HAHAHAHA! He would grab one of his toys and Kemp would WIG OUT! Charles would go look thro the toy box and randomly pick up something and Kemp would scream, "That's MINE!" It was sooooo funny!  Check out the pix to see Kemp freaking out at Charles! HAHAHA>.......After eating some red velvet cake and drinking some coffee and just hanging out, sadly, the FRY CHRISTMAS PARTY was coming to a close. One by one, my sweet kids/in-laws/significant others and grandbabies---left. Then, Terry and I looked at each other---grabbed the REMOTE and said "PEACE ON EARTH!" HAHAHAHA! Seriously, this is what makes our life worth living---having our beautiful family together and enjoying life and each other and , most of all, understanding the REAL meaning of CHRISTmas, which came in the form of----a baby. Praise God! Speaking of PRAISING GOD, I must go and get ready to do just that today, on this glorious Christmas Eve and give thanks to God for letting me able to do just that with Patrick this year.

 MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!!