Merry Christmas!

I can't hardly believe that tonight is Christmas Eve! Everyone in our house can hardly wait for the evening to come. We will be celebrating Christmas here with just the six of us tonight. Scott and I have so many different families to celebrate with we have to do it on other days rather than actually on Christmas. Last Saturday we went to Gothenburg to celebrate with my mom's side for lunch. Then for supper we headed to Sumner to Scott's mom's. We had a great time at both and it was a very nice day. Christmas Day Tj will be going to have lunch with his mom and staying the night with her. We are very thankful that we got to celebrate all of our Christmas' with him being a part of it. And also for both our families accepting Tj as part of our family just as we do! We did have some very big plans for the weekend that may be coming to an end very quickly if the weather does what they are saying it's suppose to. Saturday we are suppose to have Christmas here in Lincoln with my dad's side and also with Scott's dad and Step mom. My bother and mom will also be coming if all goes as planned. So far Scott's dad and Step mom have canceled but we hope that the weather doesn't get as nasty as it's suppose to and everyone can make it still. Also, Saturday is Keely's 2nd birthday so we have plans to celebrate it on Sunday afternoon since a lot of our family will be in town already. I really feel so terrible for Keely having her birthday so close to Christmas since its already so busy and not many people can usually make it down for her party. I guess if everything changes and nobody comes we will just have a party for her with just the six of us on her actual birthday and try and do something fun. I would just love to officially change her birthday to a warmer time of year so we would know that everyone would be able to come and celebrate it with her. We also found out at the end of last week that Tatum's foster parents (nana and papa) will be going to Branson again this year over new years eve. So we all are going to Branson the 30th when Scott gets off work and will be staying until the 1st or 2nd. We may even stop and stay a night in Kansas City to see Keely's foster parents but will have to see how things go once we get to Branson. We have now been to Branson to meet them 3 or 4 times and love getting away and getting to see them. It is so pretty there this time of year. Branson is about half way for both of us so it makes it a little easier for all of us to get together. Since I last posted we had another child placed with us for foster care. Sunday night we got a call to see if we would be interested in taking a 13 year old girl and we said that we would. The state was in the process of doing background checks on some of her family members so we knew that there was a possibility that she wouldn't be with us long. On Tuesday we found out that she was going to be going to stay with some of her family so Tuesday night they came and got her. She wasn't here too long but that was OK at least she was going to be able to go be with her family on Christmas. We just hope that she can get her life on the right track now and learn something from the rough times she's been through. We have all been healthy here for a long time and hope that it continues to stay that way! Tomorrow we have plans of taking the girls to see the Princess and The Frog movie. They are very excited and can't wait to use their movie passes that they got from their grandma. We hope that everyone has a great holiday and a Happy New Year!