Christmas!

Well... tomorrow's Christmas! =D I'm quite excited.
The Christmas Eve service tonight was wonderful. I loved all the music, everybody did a great job.
Dad came a little after we got home. Matt S., Steve and amazingly all of our family is here. =) Shocking to have us all in one place. We each opened one gift tonight as is customary in our family. Sharon got a phone from Morgan. She was tickled to death.lol Joe got the Spider-Man trilogy from Morgan. =D We are all excited about that, we're watching the third one now. Morgan got a really pretty silver bracelet from Mom. Dad got a Pac-Man game thing from us. He was playing it a while ago and I must say everyone in the living room was very into the game. Mom didn't open anything. =( She's gonna wait till tomorrow. I got all four Love Come Softly movies from Mom!! I haven't seen the fourth one, but I did see most of the first and second and all of the third, they are wonderful! I highly recommend them to girls... I'm not sure if guys would appreciate them as much.lol
Tomorrow we plan on getting up rather early. Dad's coming around 7, and glory hallelujah, Steve is, most likely coming earlier than that. Joy. Sharon is more excited than any of us I think. =P
Hope you all have a completely wonderful and joyous, very Merry Christmas!

Freaky!

Dad just came over a few minutes ago. I opened the door and he looked at me and said, "I'm glad you're alright." I was confused and asked what? He told me to turn on the news. I don't know if you all already know, but there was a shooting at Von Maur in Westroads Mall around 2:00 this afternoon. Yesterday we went to the mall and for the first time entered that same department store. It gave me chills to think we were there just a day before a shooting! Luckily the guy shot himself(sorry I know it's bad to like people killing themselves but in my opinion if they have the nerve to deliberately kill someone else, they deserve it). My aunt just called and is on the phone with my mom right now. Uncle TJ heard about the shooting and told her to call to make sure we are okay. Ahhh... it just freaks me out! Okay, I'm alright now. As soon as I saw it on the news and realized it, I remembered what Pastor said on Sunday night... how God is protecting us even when we don't realize it. What if Dad had come home last night instead of Monday night... and we went to the mall today? What if the guy suddenly got the urge to go the the mall on Tuesday instead of Wednesday? It just amazes me how God has His strong hand on my family and I.

Guilty

I feel kinda bad since I haven't posted anything in a while... my bad. Things haven't been extremely busy, but pretty close.
First of all, Christmas shopping! I've had the most fun shopping this year. It helps when you have a 'job' so you have money to spend. I was able to get a bunch of things for my family, I hope they like them. =D Christmas this year hasn't come fast enough, I know it always seems that way... but especially this year. On like Dec. 1 I thought it was Christmas the next day. Sharon especially is excited. The house looks really nice because Morgan set up everything we had.
Updates on the Allen kids. Well Isaiah has some teeth in now! =D He's so cute... and he's starting to walk which unfortunately allows him to get into everything with results in me having to clean it up... go figure. Frankie and Madlyn are growing up really fast. Madlyn is so helpful with Isaiah and knows what to do for everything that happens. Frankie is just a sweetie pie. He comes up and gives me hugs and says I love you for no reason... he also helps me whenever I need it. =)
Here they are.



There's not too much spectacular news accept that I finally got some good candy! Also I think I might be getting sick.lol