We were so blessed this Christmas!! Our friends and family showered us with kindness and gifts, including a generous anonymous envelope that was left at the bishops house for us. It blows my mind to see how generous people are. I hope I can always seek to be as generous to others as people have been to us. We followed our pattern of Christmas day that we did last year, and I like it. For me it's a good compromise between Eric's traditions and my traditions. We of course wake up to see if Santa came!! And he did! And he brought the kids exactly what they wanted.
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Stuffy |
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A big T-rex |
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Olaf |
Then there was much unwrapping and joy. The older three tore through there gifts.
CharlyAnn was much more meticulous and careful so was still unwrapping long past the others. It was so cute.
But the big kids had things to do! Time to play with the new toys!
After santa gifts we watched the Disney Christmas parade and had delicious breakfast burritos.
Then we had our nativity!! It was a nice conglomeration of both direct scriptural reading and acting out of favorite parts.
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Eric=Joseph, Viana=Mary, Brooke=innkeeper |
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And now Brooke is a wiseman |
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Emery was of course the newborn babe! |
After that we were ready to open the other gifts. The night before we had been dingdong ditched this huge box! So we decided to start with that. Someone once again had been beyond generous to our family.
The kids got such nice toys and Eric and I even got nice presents! Whoever did that was generous and kind to think of us. Though as you can see...we weren't lacking for presents!
Even precious little Anabelle got a present--from both Santa and us!! Lucky Anabelle!
It was such a great Christmas, I love my family so much. It's so nice to just have nothing but time to spend with them during the holiday seasons!!