Nite Lites

We had three girls under the weather last evening and at about 1am this morning I heard some "not so great" movement and noises upstairs.  "I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter".....I wish "the sash" was the only thing being thrown up...:)  I was betting it was McKenna because she seemed to be the one who really wasn't feeling well before bedtime.  I went to check on her and discovered it was Karly.  Luckily, it seems it was a short bout of a stomach issue....because they are all doing much better today.

Brad had another funeral to officiate today.  He has had quite a few since he has become a "rent-a-rev" pastor for Burden's Funeral Home.  They call him whenever a family doesn't have a home church or a family pastor.  He actually really enjoys meeting the families and helping them plan for the funeral services for their loved ones....especially when he is able to honor someone who has been in the military.

Since we had sickness in the house yesterday, the germaphobe in me was not wanting to touch anything the girls had touched the day before....but, since the girls are technically on Christmas vacation now, I wanted to present my plan to disinfect the house in a fun, festive way, so I told the rest of the family we needed to SANTA-tize the house this morning.  We all cleaned and then Brad was working on getting ready for the funeral, so I took the girls to see a local ice skating show....the performance was by kids their own ages who have been taking skating lessons at Optimist Ice Area.  Then, after the funeral service, Brad met up with us there and we went out to eat and then on to one of our favorite family Christmas traditions...

Making puppets out of the napkins at Bob Evans (oh, that's not the family tradition...haha! WHAT IF!, not that there is anything wrong with puppets....that would just be a different kind of tradition. )

It's like I gave them some kind of goofy medicine!

See!

Enough evidence? :)  They didn't get much sleep last night.

It was so busy at Nite Lights tonight!  This is the family Christmas tradition....the girls LOVE it!...Even though it is pretty much the same every year, it is pretty cool to drive through all the lights.

A view of the Nativity...

Then I realized the pictures I was messing up because we were moving were actually kind-of pretty so I started trying to make interesting light trail pictures.

Oooooooooo....

Ahhhhhhhh!

Let Your Light Shine!