Christmas with the Halvorsen Family!

Yeah! I survived hosting my first family Christmas--phew--and I'm glad it's over =). No really, it was a lot of fun and we enjoyed having everyone over. The only 'problem' was trying to cook a full chicken for the first time...which did NOT take the prescribed 1 hour and 45 minutes...but rather took almost 3 hours.....can we say late dinner? Poor McKayla was getting pretty tired but she got a second wind and made it through! It was a great time had by all. Check out the pics!!

Andrea, McKayla and Kyle


Justin & Michelle


In other news, after hosting Christmas, we went out to look at some furniture (they had a good sale that ended at 9pm). Good thing we did-because we were able to find new living room furniture! YAY! I'm pretty excited about it and can't wait for the Dec. 28th delivery. I don't think Justin is quite as excited as me...but he'll enjoy it once it arrives. When it gets here and we get everything in its place I'll be sure to post some photos! Merry Christmas to us =)!

We pray you all will have a blessed Christmas and New Year's and will look forward to seeing some of you while in NE! Check back after the holidays for pictures with the Long family and pictures of the new furniture!