Merry Christmas 2007

Notice the lack of Christmas tree ornaments down in The Natalie Zone. We did the same thing two years ago for Katie. It’ll be nice to be able to cover the tree in ornaments without them getting broken, but I love little Natalie at this age. And I love little Katie at her age, too.

This is the first year we haven’t traveled on Christmas Day. We visited the Kingsport side of the family last weekend, so we got to stay at home and the kids got to play with their presents.

This Thanksgiving and Christmas have been the best we’ve had since we started dating. Some of the family issues of who eats where on what day have been ironed out, people have gotten used to us as husband and wife who shoulder big parts of the holidays, and we’ve gotten better at shouldering those parts. Melissa was an absolute kitchen goddess this year, making Christmas Eve dinner for 15 people followed by a Christmas Day brunch.