Christmas

Christmas was fun and lonely this year. It kind of seemed like just another day. We read the Christmas story from Matthew, prayed and then opened gifts. We spent a couple hours baking and then headed to some good friends of ours for steak and baked potato dinner. I know not the usual Christmas dinner but we decided to do something out of the ordinary. We spent the rest of the day playing games and watching movies with friends and family. Earlier in the day my mom and I drove to Landstuhl to drop off desserts for the Wounded Warrior Center christmas dinner. They also deserve to have a good christmas especially because they are so far from family and have given their lives to fight got their country. What have you done to help someone during this time of the year or during the year?

Thanksgiving

The last time I wrote on my blog I was still on my internship in France. Well that is over and am back home with my family. My dad came home for 2 weeks the day before I got home and then the day after I got back we packed up and went to the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort for 4 relaxing days. We went sightseeing by day and sat in the hot tub by night. We enjoyed tons of good quality family (minus 1) time together and even got wonderful professional massages. On the way home we stopped at Stuttgart, where we used to live, to have thanksgiving dinner. You see the dining facilities at all the bases have thanksgiving dinner for anyone who does not feel like cooking, are single, soldiers, airmen, people on vacation and so on. It was a fun time. We saw some old friends of ours and even a few old teachers. One sight did make my heart ache. This sight was the sight of single soldiers eating alone in a room of families. It made me sad to see that they had no one at this time of year when it has a lot to do about family.