This past week, we celebrated Christmas with the rest of the world. We were blessed to wake up and find that we were going to celebrate a Colorado White Christmas. There was an inch of snow on the ground and it came down hard all day. It was a traditional DeVries Christmas celebration. Wake up and open stockings, eat cinnamon rolls, read the Christmas story, open presents, eat Christmas dinner, go out to Mom and Dad's and have the family gift exchange, eat another Christmas dinner, lay around in misery, etc.! Oh yeah; Dad DeVries hooked up the sleds to the back of the truck and pulled everybody around out in the pasture for a good time of sledding. The kids were freezing by the time it was over but wanted go out and hit it again. Ah Christmas!!! As usual, it was all great!! Matt's in laws were in from Germany so we had a lot of fun with them. Everybody got what they wanted for the most part; we definitely all got way more than we need. One significant gift was our family gift to ourselves that I mentioned on last week's blog. We chose not to get individual gifts for the kids (even though they are now at the stage where they get substantial gifts for each other!) or for each other. Instead, we had a home theater installed in our basement. 52" plasma TV, surround sound, powered sub woofer, etc. We've really enjoyed watching the Nuggets and Broncos in High Definition TV and we've enjoyed watching movies together as a family on the big screen. When you have teenagers, you think of ways to give them reasons to stay at home as much as possible; this is what we came up with. We hope to enjoy this for a long time.
Last Wednesday Michael turned 11 years old. He's doing great, and we are all proud of him. We went snow shoeing with Matt, Dad, Jason and Connie (Matt's Dad-in-law). Michael and Jason got ahead of us on the trail and almost got lost; we were all very relieved to find them walking out in the middle of a frozen mountain lake. They both received the lecture of their lives, believe me!!! Michael had 2 of his friends over for the night and had a good time with them as well.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas! Don't forget to look at the pictures at the bottom of the blog.
Your servant for Christ's sake,
MJD,Sr.
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