Well, as many of you know, this year is our traveling Christmas. We didn't fit much in last year with me working at Enon and having to be there for the Christmas Eve service. So now it's been a few years since i've made it to either ARPC's or Sardis Presbyterian's candlelight services in Charlotte. But, we've started new traditions.
This year, we decided that in 5 days, we'd hit 3 states in 6 cities to visit 3 families. We began on Wednesday (Christmas Eve). We packed the car and headed out early in the morning for Hershey, PA. The traffic was great, but the weather was horrendous. We made it there by lunch time and spent the evening passing out presents to the young ones and enjoying food and cookies with the 25 or 30 relatives on Ashley's dad's side of the family. The biggest hits were the blinking Rudolf noses we gave out to the kids who wore them and played with them for hours.
Christmas morning (Thursday), we woke up, exchanged some presents with Ashley's dad and step mom and brother, Erich and then hit her aunt and uncle's place for a huge breakfast. Then we hit her other aunt and uncle's for another breakfast before hitting the road for the south land.
We got to Chapel Hill by 7pm Christmas night to have Christmas dinner and exchange more presents with Ashley's mom and her husband and her brother, Marcus. This morning, (Friday) we got up to take Marcus to the airport for a mission trip to South Africa and then did some sale shopping for ourselves and the wedding and more eating and i worked on my sermon for Sunday.
Tomorrow, we will rise early, head to Davidson for Page Mowery's wedding, spend some time with my folks and Kelley for her birthday, and more presents. Then Sunday will be me preaching at my home church in Charlotte for their college Sunday and more time with my folks in Concord before we head home to our own home in Richmond to finally have time to give each other some presents and chill with the dog before we're back to work and school in the new year.
This will likely be one of my last posts in 2008. i'll do a 2008 recap soon.
This year, we decided that in 5 days, we'd hit 3 states in 6 cities to visit 3 families. We began on Wednesday (Christmas Eve). We packed the car and headed out early in the morning for Hershey, PA. The traffic was great, but the weather was horrendous. We made it there by lunch time and spent the evening passing out presents to the young ones and enjoying food and cookies with the 25 or 30 relatives on Ashley's dad's side of the family. The biggest hits were the blinking Rudolf noses we gave out to the kids who wore them and played with them for hours.
Christmas morning (Thursday), we woke up, exchanged some presents with Ashley's dad and step mom and brother, Erich and then hit her aunt and uncle's place for a huge breakfast. Then we hit her other aunt and uncle's for another breakfast before hitting the road for the south land.
We got to Chapel Hill by 7pm Christmas night to have Christmas dinner and exchange more presents with Ashley's mom and her husband and her brother, Marcus. This morning, (Friday) we got up to take Marcus to the airport for a mission trip to South Africa and then did some sale shopping for ourselves and the wedding and more eating and i worked on my sermon for Sunday.
Tomorrow, we will rise early, head to Davidson for Page Mowery's wedding, spend some time with my folks and Kelley for her birthday, and more presents. Then Sunday will be me preaching at my home church in Charlotte for their college Sunday and more time with my folks in Concord before we head home to our own home in Richmond to finally have time to give each other some presents and chill with the dog before we're back to work and school in the new year.
This will likely be one of my last posts in 2008. i'll do a 2008 recap soon.
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