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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We certainly did. Good thing we are building a new house, because I don't have a clue where we are going to put all of the stuff we got, especially all the toys. We might even have to add a "toy" room to our house… Emma Grace had so much fun opening presents, and would say "ah, a pesent for me". However, she got so many presents that it got to the point where she got tired of opening them, and just wanted to play with her toys. She still has presents to open. As a matter of fact, she just opened four just a few minutes ago, and still has several left. She got a kitchen set from Santa, and LOVES it. It came with a phone, and she grabs it and calls Grammy, Granddaddy, Aunt Tammy and Auntie Kim. She says the same thing over to each one she calls. Last night, she talked about the fireworks that Granddaddy got and popped. She really enjoyed that. She also got a Fisher Price Sing-a-long that has a camera and projects her on the TV through the VCR. It also has a cartridge that comes with it so she can sing along with music. You also can put the radio, cds, etc through it. She LOVES watching herself on TV. She wasn't quite sure of it at first. She couldn't figure out how or why she was on TV, but last night she was all into it. She knows exactly which buttons to push to turn it on. She is too smart for her own good. We are glad she is smart, but sometimes she is just TOO smart. We have to clean out her room, yet again, to make room for all these presents.

We have the forms and pipes for our house. (Maybe I can get Wes to put up some photos tonight) We were hoping that they would come today and work to get it ready to pour the concrete later on this week, but they didn't. We figured since they mentioned rain they wouldn't show up, and they didn't. They could have worked till at least noon, so now it looks like we will not get any concrete till next year after listening to the weather. I am ready for this process to get started.

We are still doing well with the monogramming. More and more people are finding out that we are doing it, and we are getting more business. It has certainly kept us busy the last two weeks, which we are thankful for. We were mostly focusing on shirts at first, but hopefully, we will be getting all types of bags soon. I am working on finding a good company to order from.

Emma Grace is becoming such a little girly, girl, and DRAMA QUEEN. She is so funny. She amazes us everyday with the things that she can do. Since going to Disney, she has started speaking so much clearer and some of the stuff she says is so funny. We don't know where some of it comes from. She can repeat anything she watches, and LOVES to sing. She is certainly our little entertainer. She loves watching the video Wes made of our trip to Disney. She has watched it so much she knows exactly what is about to happen before it happens. When she sees Cinderella’s castle, she says "Tinkerbell". She knows Tinkerbell comes out of the top of it, so she thinks Tinkerbell lives there. She calls Cinderella, "benderalla". She can name all of the Disney's characters. Also, when she watches the video and the castle starts to change colors before the fireworks, she can tell you the colors. We haven't told her the colors. She will sometimes tell us colors when we ask, so I didn't know if she really knew them. Apparently, she does know them. I guess our Disney trip was an educationally one for her. She certainly hasn't forgotten it.

Well, I guess that is all for now. I thought I would get the Disney entry in by now, but just haven't had the time. Maybe I can get it done this week. Right now, I have to try and clean up the "Toys R Us" explosion in the living room. Later….