From Jessika

Hi!! This is Jessika. One of my cousins (Courtney Heller) made the comment on New Years day that Dad was horrible at updating his blog. And I completely agree with her!!!! So I convinced Dad to let me update the blog every once in a wile! So here goes........

On the Mon. after School was out Kate Sheppard, Andrew Sheppard, Charis Trusty, Micah Trusty, Josiah Trusty, and Roz Trusty came to our house to decorate cookies! Charis, Kate and I made a sleigh with Santa in it and
5 reindeer pulling it! Everyone made little Christmas trees out of ice cream cones and decorated them with m&m's and raisons and other eatable candies. We ate some and gave some to our neighbors, the Gebbhearts. We had a lot of fun!!

On Christmas Eve my grandparents on Mom's side came down and watched our church's Christmas program. Kate Sheppard sang a song called "Glory To Glory" and Kyle, me, and a few other kids from our church sang "Away in a Manger" during Kate's song. Kate did fantastic!!

At 6:30 on Christmas day, Kyle and I went bouncing into Mom and Dad's room. (It's the rule that we can't go see the presents under the tree until we go see Mom and Dad and read the Christmas story) After that we went out by the tree and saw all of the presents under the tree. Kyle's big surprise was a Brand new orange bike! He also got 2 Wii games, a toy gun, CDs, a magic kit, checkers, Narnia action figures, 6 pairs of jeans, gift cards, a jacket, and candy. I got a new bed spread, 2 books, a Nintendo DS and a game, a nail kit, a jacket, a pureNRG shirt and bag, and gift cards.That was just here! Next we went to Dad's parents' house.

On Dec. 26, 2008 we had Christmas with my Dad's parents. Kyle and I both got a lot of cool presents but the best present was seeing Alex's new shirt. It read "I'm gonna be a big brother"
That's right! In Aug. I'm gonna be a big cousin. (again)

On Tue. we went to Aunt Susie's house and celebrated the New year. And I am proud to say
(type) that I was one of the first people in this time zone to eat in 2009! I should be in a world record book! The next day was new Year's day and we celebrated the yearly Heller Christmas!
It was soooo much fun! All of my cousins on Mom's side were there! The hardest part was getting all 13 of us (ages 4 years - 20 years) to fit on one small couch!!! But it was still very very fun!!!

Now enough of my jibberish! Here are some pics!!

Heller Christmas

Christmas with my Grandparents on Dad's side

Christmas day at home

Kate singing "From Glory to Glory"

Our sleigh at the Christmas Cookie Creating Celebration