The Rice Family: Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas morning at mom and dads. It was nice to be able to spend the morning with them and have them share in the excitement of two very happy little girls. Santa was good to them, he even left them a note with a picture of a beautiful new doll house waiting for them back home in CT. After opening presents we spent the afternoon with Teresa and Alan and went back to mom and dads for dinner. It was a relaxing day with way too much food!!

Ally playing her new guitar

Playing in the dirt in our pretty Christmas dresses.

olive fingers

The 3 Muskateers

The cousins

Opening presents from mom and dad. Mom bought everything 2 sizes too big for both girls. Same as last year despite calling ahead of time for sizes. She definatley keeps us laughing! :)

The Rice Fam

2 exhausted little people

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"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." -Marjorie Hinckley-
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