Christmas

Christmas morning we woke up very early! Before the kids so we could be ready! Gordon woke up first, and well we were changing him, Sarah came in and was SOOOO EXCITED and said Santa woke me up! Then we woke up Jonathan!

Can you see the excitement in Sarah's face!

What a fun age!

Now Jonathan is ready and Happy!

Really Ready!

Time to open Stockings!
Santa brought snowshoes for the kids!

Gordon

She just loved her phone!

His own elf!

Gordon was so content sitting on Daddy's lap!

Jonathan and Sarah both gave me presents! It was so cute as they were SOOO excited about it, Jonathan made things out of his Lego's and told me about what each thing. It was so sweet!

My sweet Sarah also made a package for me!

So was so excited that she got twin babies! She was in heaven. If you ask Sarah who gave her something everything was from Santa! She just thinks Santa is the best!

I made this cute ball for Gordon! And it even jingled!

I got this cool bowl from my in laws from Hawaii!

Sarah received new boots from Santa and she loves them, every time she puts them on she says they are just like Grammy's!

We gave Jonathan this helicopter and after he opened it, he said just what I wanted!

Grammy helping Sarah get her dress up clothes out! She just loves them and wears them all the time!

All ready for church!

After church I needed to go see a patient, so Dave hung out at with the kids and then went over to Grammy and Papa's for lunch. We had panni's they were SOO good!

Gordon just LOVED this teddy bear Grammy and Pap gave him, he just laughed and laughed at it! It was so cute to watch!

Jonathan just loves his Scooby do pjs, he wears them every night until we tell him we need to wash them! Jonathan really like scooby do, and super hero's (but still loves monkey George)

Sarah got this sweet elephant from Grammy and Papa, and Sarah got her hair down by Kristi!

Sarah got this cute hat from Craig and Liz, which went right along with her dress up chest!

Jonathan got this basketball hoop from Craig and Liz also, and he is getting better all the time!

After we the kids played the fishing game, and enjoyed each others company!

Then we got ready for dinner! Sarah and Ben helping snap the green beans! It was a very nice Christmas!

Christmas Eve Family Home Evening

We had a nice Family home evening at our house this year! It was fun to be home and have Grammy and Papa with us! We enjoyed Cafe Rio, singing Carols, nice little lesson from Daddy, giving a gift to Jesus (Jonathan's was being more reverent at church), and then we took some pictures, wrote a letter to Santa with a Santa cookie, and then read a Christmas story and scriptures and off to bed!

Sarah enjoyed leading!

As you can tell, the kids where so excited!

I just love this one!
One of our family tradition is we wear red pjs to bed on Christmas eve!

Craig stopped by with the girls!

Writing a letter to Santa! I just love them working together with Daddy!

Santa came! I just love the magic of Christmas!

Family Christmas Eve!

On Sunday we Celebrated our Christmas Eve with the entire family since everyone won't be getting together! It was great! We had our traditional Cafe Rio, which was inhaled! :) Then we did chimes, our Nativity story, and wishes! It was great to have everyone there- before Grandma and Grandpa left to go back East and Jeff and Marcie back to Texas!

Dave and I played a little before we started chimes!

Enjoying each others company!

Waiting for their turn!

Sarah loved Uncle Jeff!

Dave and I get the opportunity to get everyone dressed and assign out parts! I am thankful that Dave does it with me!
Jonathan was a donkey and he thought that was great, and he loved that he made everyone laughed!

Then we did our traditional wishes with the candy cane! Sarah did great she used so many words together!! " I wish family forever" :) It was so cute!

Jonathan wished that his leaky eye would stop. I wished for our family to continue to grow close and to gather together at least once a year! Dave wished that everyone would get out of debt and to leave a great legacy for our children!

The entire group, but Grandma and Grandpa!