Christmas Day

This year Christmas was quite eventful! We woke up not only to powerful winds but snow falling. We had no power as well, and no heat. Our furnace has been giving us trouble and with the hustle and bustle of the last few days, there has been no time to replace a sensor in our furnace. My dad is an expert in the heating/air-conditioning field and told us how to "rig" the sensor so that it would work, well, it wasn't working at all Christmas Day. We decided to run our two fireplaces and that actually kept the house pretty warm. We had a fun Christmas morning with candles lit throughout the house. We read a story or two from the Friend and read the scriptures. We drank our orange juice and waited for it to lighten up a little outside. As the snow fell, with no power, the kids started on their stockings. I loved Christmas as a child! My parents made the day so much fun! We had to line up from youngest to oldest, read Luke 2 and we also had to open gifts one at a time. My dad usually had a little treasure hunt for us with an envelope in the tree with clues to our final gift. I now understand how much fun it probably was for him as well! I loved watching the kids have fun with their new things. Yes, they are things, but it still is fun! Dan and I had to laugh all morning at their glee. I took a funny picture of Dan reading the instructions to Joe's new transformer...and Joe waiting in anticipation for him to figure it out. Christmas is seriously the most tiring day but the most joyous!

Later in the day I began to feel very sick. I was in bed the entire day with nausea and a headache. Later that night the kids were complaining of the very same thing. The next morning (today) we found that our fireplace downstairs was leaking carbon monoxide. Scary! We turned it off and aired it out and are all feeling much better! Carbon Monoxide detectors are so worth the money!

With more than a foot of snow on the ground and still falling outside, this truly was the most memorable Christmas! I hope your was all you hoped for and more!