Christmas Spirit?

I can honestly say up until Friday night I had NO Christmas spirit....Lists, lists and more lists of stuff to do/get besides the normal!  Ugh!  It was feeling like a huge pain and no fun at all!  I had made my millionth trip to Wal-Mart to pick up more groceries for baking cookies and the final few things for the boys.  On the way home 104.1 had a Santa hotline.  Kiddos would call in and talk to Santa and tell him what they wanted.  A little boy called in (sounded about Cole's age) and said, "Can I tell you something before I tell you what I want?  There are boys and girls that don't have any toys, so can you make sure you get to their houses and give them presents?"  And there it was!  I cried the last 5 miles home.  Whoever the parents of those kiddos were deserve a metal!

Everyone gets so caught up in getting what their kids WANT and what we think we NEED, we tend to foget what Christmas is about.  We were on a tight budget this year with presents and I was feeling pretty sad about not being able to get the boys much...But just think.  I had enough money to buy a few gifts, we have a house to sleep in, a basement to hide the toys, a tree to put the presents under, an oven to make a Thanksgiving meal and most importantly family to spend it with!!!!

We are RICH!  Rich with other things than money!  Cole had his Christmas Progam this morning!  Here is a link:

This video is of one of the songs the kids sang!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inbMznY4aYo

This video is 10 minutes long and of the rest of the program!  They played a video and silly me forgot to turn the camera so everyone could see..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpT-hdX6MNI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

 Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and enjoys every minute of the craziness!

Well-Blake just put the DVD player remote in the toilet then was fishing for it.....Think Positive: We are lucky enough to have a toilet inside and a DVD player :)