Countdown to Christmas: Day 0

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Merry Christmas!!

From the Kawell Family

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Countdown to Christmas: Day 1

It's Christmas Eve! We're are having our Christmas party right now, so this will be short. Today, we played some football and watched some football (Bears win again!). We finished our work yesterday, so it was a quiet day. Everyone has had a great day! Hope everyone has had a great day too, and we'll see you tomorrow!!!

Countdown to Christmas: Day 2

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve! Today will be a busy day as we prepare for the weekend. We will be having a Christmas Eve party at our house with some friends of ours, so we will be cleaning the house and getting ready for the holiday. Last night, we went to see a house near by that has it Christmas lights set to music. We saw something similar at the zoo, but this house had more songs. I'm sure many of our readers have seen videos of such houses. They're pretty cool.

Sneak peek: After Christmas, and after the Christmas pictures are posted, we will be posting random pictures of 2006. It has been a fun year, and we would like to share it with our readers as we get nearer to 2007.

Countdown to Christmas: Day 3

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Christmas is coming fast!! Yesterday and the day before, we did a lot of shopping, and today we finished. There are some excited people in this house! Tuesday evening (19th) we went to the Birmingham zoo where they have the whole place covered in Christmas lights. They even had one section set up so that the lights blinked in time to music! It was great.

Again, pictures are coming on to the camera very fast and I haven't even got them off yet, so pictures will be late in coming. I might have a chance to get some posted tomorrow, but if I don't do so, you'll have to wait until after Christmas. Sorry...

Countdown to Christmas: Day 6

The "Countdown to Christmas" posts have been a lot of fun and we will continue to try and post up until Christmas. However, this is a warning that as the days get busier as Christmas gets closer I don't know how often we will get a chance to post. The pictures that we've been promising may not get on here till after Christmas unless I get some time to get them together. We've had good responses to the Countdown, and I'll try to keep posting, but I can't promise anything!

Countdown to Christmas: Day 7

Goodness, when was the last time we updated?! Christmas is coming in fast and we are scrambling to get ready. On Wednesday, we went to a walk-through-nativity at Briarwood church. We have been doing this for years. They have scenes from Christ's life from the prophets to the resurrection with actors and lots of live animals! We did take some pictures and we will try to put them up before Christmas!
Merry Christmas!!

Countdown to Christmas: Day 12

The twelve days of Christmas have started! Get out your partridges and pear trees! This is one of our newer traditions. The basket with the straw in it symbolizes the manger were the Baby Jesus slept on the night of his birth. It is hard to see in this picture, but in the corner there is a little pail of straw. Whenever someone in the family does a voluntary good deed for someome else they can privately put a piece of straw in the basket. On Christmas morning, Mama puts a doll in the basket to symbolize Jesus sleeping on our good deeds!