Here are some shots of the kids on their bikes today:

We hadn’t been to the zoo in a long time, and it was a beautiful day outside, so the kids really wanted to go. I took way too many pictures. Here are a bunch of them:

Some pictures of the kids opening presents this fine Christmas morning:

The reality is that there won’t be Christmas cards coming in the mail this year, so this will have to do. I feel pretty bad about this, since I’ve put together a picture to mail out every year since Lauren was born. Anyway, here they are all dressed up fancy for their annual picture.

We went to the Opryland Hotel to look at all the Christmas decorations and to have a nice dinner. I think everyone had, but the kids got a little tired of posing for pictures.

Beth and Jake had their First Reconciliation sacrament tonight. They were both pretty excited about it, not at all scared like I thought they would be. No pictures during the ceremony of course, but here are a couple from before we went in: