I love December because I love Christmas. I love all the parties, the family time, the neighbor gifts, the Christmas cards, the good food, the decorations, the music, and especially all the focus on the real reason for the season. So, here are some pics!
This is Christmas Eve at Grammy & Grampy's house. Mike stood in front of the fireplace a lot to keep the twins away. It was such a fun night. All the grandkids acted out the nativity while Grampy read from Luke 2 and we paused along the way and sang Christmas songs while Grammy played the guitar. Then we had dinner, then exchanged presents. It was a really fun night for everyone.
This is Marian, Jodi and Matthew's baby. She is four months older than Emmy and Tommy and they are starting to become little friends. I love her shirt!
Here is cute Lily as Mary. She is such a fun cousin for my kids. She is Bryant's age but because she is a girl, Erica loves playing with her too.
Isn't this the best family picture you have ever seen? I just love it! This is all the grandkids except one, Clara who is 2 is missing. That's probably why she is missing. Here we have all the necessary nativity characters with a bit of family chaos, it's the best! We really wanted the twins in the pic but as you can see, they had other plans in mind.
Christmas morning!!! Look what Santa brought Tommy and Emmy's is on the right. This is a blurry picture but I had to post that cute face of Tommy's. That's a kid on Christmas morning!
Here's Emmy with her princess scooter. Tommy loves to push her all around the house on it. He is a strong kid! Bryant is teaching Emmy all the bells and whistles, she doesn't look too interested.
Yea, Santa came!!! Erica got a blow dryer with a retractable cord, and an ipod touch! That's what she really wanted!!!
Here's Bryant with his Santa gifts. He asked for a toolbox with tools and an ipod touch. Santa brought one ipod touch for both Erica and Bryant to share. They just wanted one device for games and music. Around here we have a girls day and a boys day. All odd days are girls days and all even days are boys days. If it's your day you get to say the prayer at meal time or during family prayer. You also get to help Mommy set the table or unload the dishwasher. You also get tucked in first at night and now...the ipod touch is yours on your day!!! This way they get it every other day, something I felt better about. They have been perfect about sharing it. When there are two odd days in a row, or girls days, then we split one of the days in half. They have been great about it, whew!
Our Christmas was wonderful!!! What did Mike and I get?!?!?! A grand piano, I LOVE IT!!!!!!! It's beautiful and sounds amazing. We all play the piano a lot more around here.
A highlight for me was giving a lesson to the Young Women's group at church about JOY. The "J" stood for Jesus Christ. The "O" stood for others, I focused on forgiveness of others. The "Y" stood for yourself, or finding out who we want to be in this life. It was so nice to sit at my computer and read Christmas stories and study for this lesson. It made me stop and focus on Jesus Christ, the real reason for my favorite season! I am over the ward choir so that was another highlight. They did such an amazing job on the Christmas performance. We sang "While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks By Night", "The First Noel/Pacabel's Cannon", and "O Holy Night" with a youth and children's choir added. It was so amazing. They worked so hard and it all paid off!
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