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As I am writing this Roger has the nightly news on.  It can be a bit discouraging to say the least to listen to all of the bad news, especially in regards to the economy. Therefore I think it is extremely important to keep focused on the good things we all have in our life. As we celebrated Christmas this year, we like most everyone else cut back on our spending. In spite of that we had a GREAT Christmas!

Some of the things I am thankful for:

I have a wonderful family and we are all for the most part healthy and happy.

All of our family live within a few miles of each other.

We enjoy being with each other and not only for the holidays.

We still have a business and although it is not doing as well as it has in the past (due to the economy) we are still making a living.

We have a wonderful group of friends to celebrate things with throughout the year.

We have the freedom to go to the church of our choice whenever we want to ( thanks to major sacrifices from our armed forces) and to celebrate the birth of Christ.

We all have more than we need (I’m not complaining) and we need to be thankful for what we have and not focus on what we don’t have.

Below are a few pictures that help capture the wonderful Christmas we had. I hope you all had a great Christmas as well.

The Whole Neal Clan 2008

Grandma and Kyndal making Christmas cookies

This is just too cute !!!

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