This year we did Christmas with Vonage, Skype, and web cams. Vonage is our phone system that uses the internet to make phone calls. We have a South Carolina phone number, so for anyone calling us, it's just like we still lived there! So that's how we called my family and wished everyone a Merry Christmas. With Justin's family, since his parents have a web cam, and coincidentally, so do we, we used Skype. Skype is like instant messaging but better, and you can talk through your microphone and hear through the speakers, and then see each other through the web cam- FREE! It's awesome. It's really helped the boys connect with home. We're hoping Gillian's family will get hooked up with a web cam so the boys can see them too. It's not exactly like being at home, but we will take it as our substitute.
Christmas Eve was great. After doing Christmas with family in the States through the computer, we went to church and then had friends over for a late Christmas Eve dinner. The gravy was WAY too salty and Gillian burned the stuffing, but that just made it memorable! :) Thankfully there was plenty of other good food so everyone left the table full. After dinner the boys put out cookies and milk for Santa and headed off to bed while Miss Rachel and Gillian stayed up WAY too late watching "High School Musical." Then Justin got sick - that was so much fun that it earned its own blog entry - see "Santa Brought Justin a Stomach Bug." Christmas Day we had grand plans for playing board games and watching movies, and our new Hunger Corps Missionary, Kami, even joined Rachel and us, but all we ended up doing was staying in our pajamas (excpet for Kami who had to ride public transportation to get to us), eating leftovers all day, and watching movies. The boys had fun playing with their new toys and markers. It was GREAT. - well, Justin actually stayed in bed and drank water and Gatorade, but it was still a relaxing day all around.
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