Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Here's our birthday cake for Jesus! Melany made a scrumptious white cake with homemade strawberry jam in between the layers and then frosted it with white chocolate cream cheese frosting...YUM! YUM! It has been a tradition in our family to have a birthday cake for Jesus after our Christmas lunch...blowing out the candle and singing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus...and then, of course, eating the cake.

We had a wonderful day...opened a lot of gifts...ate too much...laughed a lot...heard lots of little voices (7)playing throughout the house. Fun was had by all (well, Alex (12) wasn't feeling well so it wasn't the best day for him)and all seemed to be pleased with their gifts. Now I can reveal the secret sewing...it was for Abigail...at Woody's suggestion, I made her a "Little House on the Prairie" dress-up outfit...complete with pantaloons, camisole, dress, pinafore, sun bonnet, and even socks and boots (we bought the socks and boots...I didn't make them!). She was quite pleased and later told her mommy that Goosey (Woody) had made a good choice with her gift.

Woody and I are both tired...but a good tired! We got our friendly automated call from Vanderbilt this evening reminding us about Woody's appointment on Tuesday with Dr. Ginger Holt, the surgeon who removed the melanoma tumor from his upper left arm bone. Woody will also be having a CT scan that he has every eight weeks while on this drug study.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!