Merry Christmas and happy trails!

Ben, myself, my mom, dad and sister are heading up to South Dakota tomorrow (wish us luck on spending 6 hours in a car together!) for our Christmas celebration. We will be with my mom's family, eating, drinking and being merry. We will play bingo, in the Hanson tradition, and laugh until our stomachs give out. I'm really looking forward to it.

We will return on Christmas Day, as Ben and I both gotta make our endz, meaning we go back to work on the 26th.

I wish everyone a fun, safe and relaxing Christmas!! Happy birthday Jesus!

little sweeties

I was on the Kansas City Plaza last night, ringing a bell for the Salvation Army, and this little sweetie walks by, hand in hand with her mom. She is staring up, mesmerized by the thousands of Christmas lights lining the buildings. She turns to me and says, "thanks for the lights!" I told her, "you're welcome!"

Later, another cute little one was lifted up to the bucket by her dad to drop in her change. Her daddy said, "can you tell her what this is for?" To this the little sweetie opened her big blue eyes even wider and told me, "for people who don't have food."