Christmas 2007

Christmas this year was absolutely deeeeeeeelightful! We really enjoyed spending time together as a family. Joe and Candis also made the trip up from South Carolina to spend Christmas with us which we loved. This Christmas was really fun because it was the first time the twins really understood what was going on. Last year they had fun opening presents and such, but didn't quite understand the whole Santa idea or the suspense leading up to Christmas. This year, however, they have been talking about Christmas for a month, made special cookies just for Santa, and had a hard time getting to sleep on Christmas eve.

Lydia really melted our hearts when on Christmas evening we asked her what her favorite gift was and she said "the picture of Jesus." We had given each of the kids a small picture of Jesus they could hang up in their rooms. They really got spoiled this year but their two favorite things are their Jesus pictures and a tube of chapstick Santa put in their stockings. They ask if they can put more chapstick on 23 times a day. When we let them, they really cake it on all around the general mouth area. We really should only spend $5 on Christmas and the kids would still be thrilled about it.

Here's the fam at the national Christmas tree on Christmas Eve

Our three beautiful girls

The Move to Washington DC

We decided to move to Washington DC for a couple of years for Kenny's job. We are finally starting to get settled in and are enjoying things here. Here are some pictures of our time here so far.

This is the townhouse that we are renting while we are here. Please don't ask us how much we are paying for rent; we cry every time we think about it.

The Reeses visiting the White House trying to get a glimpse of "W" on Christmas Eve.

The Reese family visiting the Washington DC LDS temple during their Christmas display. They had a great lighting display that is very well known around here. They also had a live Nativity and a different musical group entertaining every night. The night we went we got to see a group of bell ringers. The twins loved it and were even dancing in the aisle.

Halloween 2007

The girls really had fun this year for Halloween. Rachel was a purple bunny, Lydia was a yellow bunny, and Charity was a cat. Rachel and Lydia really seemed to enjoy trick-or-treating and got a ton of candy at the ward trunk-or-treat.