And I thought Blogging was the answer!

I am not a scrapbooker.  I am pretty vocal about it too, not because I don't think it is a great thing but because I can't cut a straight line to save my life (even with a cutter) and I have a hard time being patient enough to make it look good.  So I thought blogging was the answer to my "will my children have any history of their childhood if I don't scrapbook" paranoia.  Now my scrapbooking guilt has turned into blogging guilt!  My number one reason for blogging is so that my kids have some recorded history of their childhood with little comments from me and a picture to go along with it.  In fact Kelly has said that for their wedding presents we are just going to hand them a hard drive of their life.  (I think he is a genius!)  But now I have 11 kids and a new computer (a Mac) which according to Kelly is awesome but i am still creeping up the learning curve of it.  A funny side note to that is that I am helping my teenage girls do an online computer technology class.  let's just say I am learning some basic computer skills finally.  I don't think I am ready for facebook games or changing my blog background yet but I just might do a different font on this post!

Ok now that all of that nonsense is out of the way.  I am going to try and do a quick catch up blog.

Christmas!

Our first Christmas with our new kids, was SO fun and So expensive and everything is now broken and I have nerf bullets in places in my house that it will not be possible to be retrieved.
My favorite thing was we did the nativity as a family and got it on video.  It was pretty intense while it was happening (we had at least 3 kids crying the whole time) and a few who wanted to be every character and a few who did not want to participate but overall the video turned out great and we have the memory to laugh over.  That was one of the things I was trying to post on here, but even Kelly wouldn't attempt that. So you will just have to come over and see it.  Here is a run down of the characters.  Daniel was Joseph, but only if Dibabe was Mary, Dibabe was a reluctant but sweet Mary and the 2 foot height difference between the two is one of the highlights of the video.  Caleb was the innkeeper/comedian/shepherd.  Sultan, Ramadan, and Bona were shepherds and wise men and to my surprise were way more into it than I anticipated.  Chaltu, Tayiba, Harmony, Fitya, and Mom were angels, and that was so cute!  Eva was the sheep in a dog costume and she really gets the academy award for best actress.
The second best thing was Christmas Eve and morning.  The excitement level from the little boys was so contagious.  They could have gotten one present each and been ecstatic, but by the time they got stuff from grandparents and us and Santa I think Bona was on the verge of passing out!

Overall a success and I guess we will do it again next year.