It's official!! Henry became a U.S. citizen this morning!!!! He raised his hand while we said the oath and got his certificate. He had quite a cheering section : Mama, Daddy, Trixie, Lydia, Grammy, Nana, Papa, and our good family friends Jim & Peggy Brown. After the ceremony Uncle Scotty joined all of us for lunch. This was a great day for our family and for Henry! 
Aaahh, Christmas morning! Of course we were up quite early in the morning because Lydia and Trixie were anxious to find out if Santa Claus had visited our house last night. Everyone was thrilled with all their gifts and after breakfast I couldn't stand it any longer. I had to go play in the snow with the kids. So we just put all our snow gear on right over our pajamas. Henry loved the snow ~ especially eating it. He also enjoyed sledding down our little hill. The girls love to make snow angels, but Henry didn't care too much about that. After our fun we headed in to get ready for Nana and Papa's house. We spent the rest of the day visiting the Kohlenberger side of our family. We don't get to see them all that often and it was nice to spend the day visiting with them. We had a great day and made sure we remembered to say, "Happy Birthday, Jesus!" 
Christmas Eve is always my favorite day of the entire Christmas season, but this year it was magical and perfect in every way. Snow started coming down Christmas Eve morning which excited me to no end. Snow is one of my very favorite things and I rarely get to enjoy it on Christmas Eve or Christmas. We went to church in the evening and kept Henry with us during the service. The way he enjoyed Christmas music throughout the season we knew he would enjoy the music in the service. He had a great time dancing to the music and also moving up and down the pew between me and his grandparents. When we cam out of the service it was snowing so hard we could hardly see anything ~ it was so exciting and beautiful!! The grandparents came to our house for supper and gifts after church. Henry looooved opening gifts and quickly learned that when he opened one gift another one was soon to follow. He received a bouncy zebra that is very fun for him and also some crayons and a coloring book of his own. Considering that he's always trying to take his sisters crayons and color on their papers it was a great gift for him. After all that I tried to convince everyone that sledding in the dark would be the perfect ending to this most perfect of days, but Lydia and Trixie insisted upon going to bed so that Santa would come (they were also excited to sleep in their brand new bunk beds!) So, we put cookies, milk, and carrots out and headed to bed. We read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and the story of Jesus' birth and it was lights out. I will always treasure the memory of this first, most magical, Christmas with Henry Joon Seong. :)
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This year we started attending a new church and Brent tried out for the Praise Team. It was a big deal that he made it and an even bigger deal when he was chosen to sing a solo in the big Christmas program. We were all excited to hear his solo and he did not disappoint us ~ Brent did a fabulous job! (He has such a great voice) We let Trixie and Lydia come to "big church" so they could hear Daddy sing, but Henry went to the nursery. He was, however, very curious about what was going on in the service.
