Monday, December 22, 2008

Tradition

Tradition. Every year we attend Ryan's extended family Christmas party. It is ALWAYS held the Saturday before Christmas. Then, we have my extended family's Christmas party. It is ALWAYS held the Sunday before Christmas. On this weekend last year, we were telling our families about Mason-Kate. The boys volunteered to say a prayer at each gathering and read a poem:

She was found on the steps of her orphanage house,
Wrapped in old clothes, quiet as a mouse
Her name is XueMei, to us, Mason-Kate
We're going to China and we can't wait!

Being that it is our first Christmas season with MK, we are all very excited to see her reactions and excitement to everything around her. She is having such a wonderful time with opening gifts, eating the holiday food, dancing, seeing the Christmas lights, making people laugh and playing with her new toys. Her favorite gift thus far is a piggy bank. Ryan's parents gave her a pink piggy bank with coins for her to put inside. Everytime you put a coin inside the pig, it sings "It's a Small World". She loves it so much that we are probably going to have to use the "out of sight, out of mind" technique on her. When the coins run out, she is not a happy camper.



Colin and Pryce enjoyed their school Christmas parties with some friends....



Mason-Kate tried her first piece of fried chicken....



The Tisdale grandchildren....


Santa arrived on his sleigh, er, ATV....




Merry Christmas, Everybody!

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