Merry Christmas Eve!!!!

I am stealing this idea from a dear friend... 1. Do you remember the year that Santa left Cabbage Patch kids by the back door? Oh how excited I was to meet Fredrika, she had red hair and piggy tails! I think I still have her? 2. How about the year we went to Texas in an escort? That was the last year I spent Christmas with my Uncle Terry. I miss him!! Also the same year Santa left a letter for me to tell me that he WAS infact a real person! Thank you Uncle Chris! 3. Sitting at the top of the stairs or in our rooms yelling to Mom and Dad..."Can we get out of bed yet?" EXCITEMENT!! 4. How bout...CHA CHA CHA CHIA...and that hat I wore to Aunt Brenda's with that awful jacket, or was it a shirt or a sweater...whatever it was I wanted it soooo bad, it smelled like the potato sacks that you go down the slide in at the fair! 5. I remember wanting to open a gift sooo bad on Christmas Eve...that was just un-heard of...still is huh Dad?! 6. The camera that Grandpa Murray got...it was in a huge box...and many boxes inside that...I miss him too! 7. The smell of sausage balls in the morning... 8. Actually hearing the reindeer on the roof...and the bells that followed 9. The smell of Christmas...now really sit back and think...go ahead it won't hurt anything...You smell it don't you?! 10. We always had a real tree...artificial trees were just not the same! Except for the year it went in the front door and out the back...that year artificial trees were going to be just fine, right Ma?! The older I get the more I appreciate the fact that Christmastime at our house was special, always spent with family even if it was just the 4 of us...so if you ask yourself why I am such a freak about Christmas...Thank my parents! And I will take the time to Thank them too! Dear Mom & Dad, Thank You both deeply from the bottom of my heart for all that you have done for me! Oh and will do for me...lol! Thank You for all the Christmas' that you made special to me, each and every one! I love you both more than words could ever say! Merry Christmas!! Love, Kate