So when I originally started this post I was writting my letter to Santa to make sure that when he checks his "good list" that he found the burrows bunch there. I had my list of all of the things that I wanted but I only got it half written and before I knew it Christmas had come and gone. But guess what? We were on his good list. We had a great Christmas. Matter of fact we had a wonderful December...

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we all went for the traditional Christmas tree hunt. This year Richard got the biggest tree yet. I swear it takes him 2 whole days to get just the lights on the tree. But it did turn out great.

Then we had our Burrows around the world Christmas tree express. Where we go to each others house and see our trees all decorated. Everyones tree was so awesome! We had a great time too with chips, dips and yummies at Dixie and Arts house. Then off to Roybn and Cody's for salad. Then the main course was at our house and decorating sugar cookies and Brinkley and Richy's. It was so fun and since my computer is so slow at down loading pictures you will want to go to Brinkley's blog page or Robyns. They both have some darling pictures.

Then we went on vacation. It was a little more stressful to try to get ready for Christmas by Dec. 10. so we could go and not be stressed but we did pretty good. We just had a little more running around to do when we got home but we had four days to do it so it all worked out.

We went with Brinkley and Richy and Richy's family to California and then on a cruise. It was so fun. We drove down to San Diego, taking two days to get there. We stayed in St George the first night and drove the rest of the way the next day. Then stayed in California until Monday morning when we boarded Carnivals Elations boat. We went to Catalina Island where we drove the golf carts around and the kids para sailed this time. That was new and they had a good time. Then we went to Ensenada, Mexico for a day and rented a 12 passenger van and had a great time as Richard drove us all through Mexico. The blow hole was fun and the kids had fun bartering with the vendors along the way. It was a great trip. It sure didn't feel like Christmas with the weather being so warm there.

We made it home just in time to drive up to Fez's house for the Curly & Helen clan party. There was a lot of us there this year. I think fez said that there were 47 of us. Wow we are getting big. It was fun. Then we had Christmas and Santa was very good to us. We had originally said that the trip would take place of presents this Christmas but I told Richard that we had to have a few to open. Well a few turned to a few more and then to a lot more and pretty soon it was our usual Christmas that everyone gets way to much. But I do love Christmas.

It has been a great month. Full of family and fun times. This year is starting to look like it will be the same. We started out the first day of the year by all going to a movie together and then most of us (with the exception of Brinkley and Richy and addi and oakley of course) headed to the mountain for a day full of skiing.

After I could no longer walk anymore, which really didn't take me that long to get that way, we headed to Dixies for a wonderful dinner that she had made for all of her kids and their spouse. We ate and then played games. This little get together was because Rob and Natalie were in town. It was fun to see them. Rob even came skiing with us. Thanks Rob for putting up with me and how slow and whinnie I was. I will be better next time I promise.

I will try to figure out how to get my pictures to upload. I am having problems and edit this later.