Great News!!!

Matt got a job! It's not with the police department like he was hoping, but it's not a bad second. He's going to be a prison guard. He goes in next Tuesday to find out a little more about the job. He'll be starting training *we think* on January 19th. It's 5 weeks of training up in Forsyth, GA. He'll get to come home on weekends though, hopefully. After that, he'll be POST certified (which is what he needs for the law enforcement job anyway). We're SO excited!!! GREAT news for Christmas!

Christmas 2009

My family has an odd tradition of celebrating Christmas on New Year's, which is actually great because that means we get to have a whole week of Christmas instead of just one day. On Christmas morning, my mom and dad and Matt's mom all came over to see Royce open presents. Well, they were actually a little late, so they didn't get to see all of them. Royce was too excited to sleep in and I was not going to make him wait.

The only two things Royce asked for this year was a dog and a shopping cart. We adopted Rocky the first part of December, so that took care of one; and "Santa" (Aunt Jenn) got him the other. Matt's Aunt Sally in Oklahoma sent another of Royce's faves: LeapFrog's Tag Junior. Look it up - it's pretty cool. Basically it's a little plastic robot that you move over the pages of books and it reads them to you. Royce is VERY into books right now, so it was a BIG hit! Lots of DVDs and books for Royce this year.

I got some very nice kitchen/dining room stuff. Matt got MarioCart for the Wii and we've been addicted!! We finished out the day by going to see more family - grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins...played cards until after 9 and came home to play more Wii!!

My sisters and their families are coming in on Wednesday, so we will have the big family Christmas then. Royce is getting the scanner and cash register and more groceries to go with his shopping cart, so I'm excited to see how much he loves that! More pics coming next week.