Sisters, Sundays, and Neighbor gifts!

So the one thing I have always wanted in life, is a sister. I wanted a sister to grow up with, to share clothes with, to roll our eyes at our parents together, somebody who had the same upbringing as I did with lot's of stories and inside jokes, somebody that has to love me and my craziness my entire life. I did get brothers, and some pretty fun sis-in-laws. So when I was grown and married I wanted to have all girls. I did have 1 girl and then 3 boys. I love my boys, but I always had a real feeling of guilt that I never gave Erin a sister. All of Erin's closest friends have sisters and she wishes she had a sister of her own. Well guess what? My little princess is having a sister!
Here is the princess kissing her sister. Erin and Jon have broken the sister less chain and Mike and I will have 2 princesses to love and adore!
This is the princess watching the snowstorm that blew in. With grandpa and mom.

This is before her grandpa couldn't help himself and picked her up and tweaked his sciatic nerve again! Who could resist such a sweet little girl!

So yesterday was a really great day of church. It was the Sunday before Christmas so Sacrament meeting was done by the choir. It was a beautiful program that they really worked hard on. Then our bishop had us do a service project instead of going to classes. After Sacrament meeting we went into the back rooms and made Christmas cards. the n we drove over in groups to "homes" nursing homes, and sang to the residence and gave them the cards and an orange. We went to a very nice home, Mike and I found where we want to retire to:-) They were having their Sacrament meeting when we got there. They were so cute. There was a little couple sitting next to each other, they were dressed in their nice Sunday clothes. Holding hands and singing along with us. Quite a few of the little ladies were singing with us. They all looked so cute in their Sunday best with their hair all done up. The old men were sleeping:-) I got so touched that I couldn't sing the last song, I had a lump in my throat and a leaky eye:-) Then we went to our Bishops house for a doughnut and hot chocolate and to just visit with our ward members. It was a really great experience.

On to the neighbor gifts. We have received plates of cookies, candies, nuts, loaves of bread, jars of jam, Christmas Cd's, gift wrap with a really cute saying, and even a box of butter saying you "butter" not shout etc... I took out 20 bags of soup mix. And still have more people to give to. I have ordered some fresh tortilla chips from a local Mexican restaurant and I'm going to make salsa. Plus I have got to make fudge and other treats. I have really enjoyed the neighbor gifts this year. They have been fun to give and to receive. I'm at a point in my life that it is fun for me to think of what to do and spend the time making it up. It makes me happy to know that I am making things for people I care about. And we feel very loved to receive so many little treat from our friends. We do have a pretty small ward, and we are all becoming very good friends. I wish everybody reading this a Christmas full of friends, family and love!