Dear Mom,
Sis and I are sad. We had a fun Christmas, and we loved our presents. I ordered some stuff online. I preordered the sixth harry potter book (July 16, 2005, woo!), Resident Evil Apocalypse, and two DVD box sets of my favorite anime (Slayers and Sailor Moon!) I also got another charger for my gameboy, since I think I left my last one at home, and four new shirts. Three are "girly" and one is a kingdom hearts tee shirt. I can't remember how much I have spent, maybe about $250. It would help if you told me how much money I have left in my account. n.n
With the travel money you gave me, I got this cool set of sunglasses so that I could drive better with the sun in my eyes, and a necklace made by real native americans on their reservation. (They were selling them on a blanket by a mountain look place), the lady told me that the one I picked, which had a bear on it, would bring strength. Sis got some bracelet ones, and Aunt Julie got some with special stones that mean alot of things that I can't remember.
I hope that things are going well with the moving. I especially can't wait until you can open my present, if you haven't already.
It kind of depresses us that we will be coming home to a new house and we'll be spending the rest of our vacation unpacking, but we try not to think about it. Christine felt especially sorry for me when I reminded her that it was my last Christmas in high school.
But we are very happy with the things we got with our money. Thank you so much!
We will be bringing home a new dog. He's very big and fluffy. I would love to see Barret try to drag him out the dog door.
Oh yea, and our new relatives are great. There are two Beckys. The first one is Julies sister, and she's nuts! She is alot like Dad, only about 10 times worse. I bet it's close to what you had to deal with when you were first married with Dad. The other Becky is Julies son (Johns) wife. She is the mother of Celeste and Andrew. She is very cool, and makes lots of Simpsons references, and we love to talk about movies. Andrew is their youngest son, and he's four years old. I normally hate kids, but Andrew is the sweetest little boy I have ever met in my whole life! And Celeste is easy to deal with because she's just like a young Christine. But the weird thing is, Celeste looks almost like me when I was a kid! If I showed you a picture of little Celeste and little Jane, it would be hard to tell the difference!
I like John alot too. He and his wife are like teenagers. They are wonderful with their kids, who are very sweet too. It just amazes me, because I've never seen such a wonderful family that wasn't eerily creepy.
On Christmas Eve, we were at John and Beckys house, and they were trying to get the kids to bed. They kept saying "Santa won't come if you're awake." and a little spark went off into my head. I said to Christine in a low voice, "If Santa finds you awake, he'll KILL you." and we both laughed for about five minutes until the kids went to bed. And then we told Becky, and she laughed too.
I really love it here, but I still wish we were home for Christmas. Hopefully we can visit them again. I know I can make the drive in two days, because MapQuest says that it's only a 19 hour drive.
I kind of dread going back home, becuase I know that there's alot of unpacking waiting for us, but even worse is having to drive 10 mph under the speed limit behind Dad. When I get home, please whack me over the head several times to get the thought of slashing his tires out of my mind.
Sis and I send lots of love, and hope you are having a Merry Christmas.
Love,
Jane | 
