Jacob helping us make a few last minute cookies for Aunt Kathy's house.
On Christmas Eve, I let the kids open one present. I got them a Christmas book (the one Courtney heard in Sunday school class and fell in love with.- turns out it was not the same book but she assured me this one was just as nice.) I would like to make this a new tradition. We didn't have any nice Christmas books at all so I thought it would be nice to start building a collection. It was tempting to buy a few more to start us off, but I restrained myself, it will be much more fun to stick with one a year.
Grace was really excited to open the first present. And, of course, she LOVES books!
We finished wrapping Daddy's presents but we ran out of tags. I think I like this better anyway.
It also gave the girls an opportunity to be a little funny.
That night, we had our Christmas Eve party. The boys just get sooo excited about new cars!
Megan and Grace
One of my favorite moments... Getting ready for dinner. Usually the kids are nowhere to be found (upstairs, downstairs, coming and going) but it's usually relatively quiet and you can actually hear the Christmas music and smell the sauce simmering and the bread baking. And I'm always walking around saying "what can I do?" - it's always hard to help in someone else's kitchen.
No pictures of dinner, of course, I was too busy stuffing myself.
After dinner comes the games.
After we spend a few hours at Amy's, we go over to my Dad's. Courtney just loves the babies.
...and the surprises in the stockings. She's such a ham.
2 comments:
Sounds like all of you had fun! Where were the poker chips for the card game? Oh....you mean it wasn't THAT kind of game?
Well, I've come back and looked through all of these several times now. The kids love them, too. We have a great family, don't we? :)
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