This is going to be the first of several post today. I have been slack and several "blogable" events have occurred! :) Christmas has come and gone and boy did we have a good one! Our sickness (croup) was gone just in time! We started our celebrations with the Christmas Eve service at South Main. They don't have nursery during this event...so that meant E&E had to join us in big church. Last year...Justin ended up taking Emma out because she didn't like the loud singing. We sat at the back in anticipation of that happening again this year but they both did great other than the one time Evan yelled out. The preacher made mention of Santa Claus...and Evan looked at me and said in a rather LOUD voice...Santa Claus is coming tonight! Thankfully he didn't interrupt those around us too much. Then, we headed home to make our cookies for Santa. MaMa & PaPa came over to help. Well, MaMa helped and PaPa kept Daddy company watching TV.
Didn't they turn out cute?? E&E had a blast decorating them themselves! So, we said goodbye to the grandparents, set the cookies & milk out, put out carrots for the reindeer, and sent two little excited kids off to bed! After they were good and asleep...Santa Claus & Mrs.. Claus got to work putting out toys!
Then, we were off to bed because we knew morning would come early. Wrong!! We woke up about 7:00 and E&E were still sleeping so soundly. 8:00 rolled around and they were still knocked out! They finally started stirring about 8:30. We started our morning by reading the Christmas story and talking about Baby Jesus. Since this day is truly about Him and not presents we didn't want to get carried away and not make time to celebrate him. I love this picture of Justin reading the story to E&E.
This year has been so much fun listening to them talk about Baby Jesus. One night sitting at the supper table kept I asking them questions about Christmas and why we were celebrating. They both told me all kinds of thing they knew...some made sense and some did not! :) This is such an impressionable time in their lives and I sure don't want to miss any opportunities to tell them about Jesus!! So, anyway...back to Christmas morning. We finished reading the story and prayed thanking God for his son! Then, we went into the den to see if Santa had come and he had! Emma's first reaction was...I got a baby doll! Evan was no where to be found. I went back into our room and he was still sitting on the bed looking through the bible.
I'm not going to lie...it makes me happy that be would rather look at the bible than new toys he has gotten! Lets just pray that is always the case!! It took some coaxing to get him to come to the den without just telling him he had presents! So, they were so excited to see their stuff and our den was destroyed in no time! Both sets of grandparents stopped by to see what Santa brought.
E&E played with their new toys (which included riding their new bikes inside), we ate lunch, took naps, and then we were off to my parents for supper and Christmas with the Reid's. I have never in my life seen so many presents. Granted some of the presents given this year were just big presents and they took up a lot of room...but it was borderline ridiculous! I'm not going to even attempt to list all the things E&E got. Friday morning...Justin and I spent the whole morning cleaning out old toys before we even attempted to put up the new toys. Overall it was a GREAT Christmas!!
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