Happy Birthday Jesus

The kids are playing with the Nativity Scene from the What God Wants for Christmas story... we were trying to take some Christmas pictures...

Below, can you tell we were more than hyped up on Christmas Cookies-- Santa's coming to town! After donning our Christmas pjs, the kids selected the cookies to leave for Santa, poured him a glass of milk, and sprinkled the Reindeer Food in the backyard...


We celebrated the birthday of Chirst in style. Christmas Eve we spent a few hours (hours for me... minutes for them...) in the kitchen baking some cookies, frosting, and then decorating them. We had planned on also making Jesus a birthday cake, but the cookies were as far as we got.



We cleaned up, packaged our goodies, and headed off to church for our Christmas Eve Service where the kids sang a few songs.Will and Em shared their cookies with everyone. Scott led a great Christmas acoustic set, and we praised God for the greatest gift ever.




After the service, we had an "intimate" dinner with 20+ of our good friends from church (and a restaurant full of stangers) at Wonderful Chinese where we sand Fra-ra-ra-ra-ra...ra-ra-ra-ra..
Back at home we read the Christmas Story and exchanged a couple presents. Will gave Em a Sleeping Beauty Doll, complete with the bed and pillow. She had bought him a Walle toy. They also opened their Christmas pjs.
Photography by Will...

Christmas morning brought more fun; Santa was generous this year. We also saved all our gifts that had been shipped to us- fun stuff from Aunt Debbie, Nana and Papa,
Aunt Brenda, The Bassetts, The Lees. Em was a bit confused as to why Santa left her a kitchen set...especially since it was not Princess... and she had only asked for Princess things... Will loved it all, and with each present he opened he told us that he'd "always wanted this... it is so cool," no matter if it was a car or a pair of underware.
After opening gifts, we ate some Christmas breakfast (traditional cinnamon rolls, sausage cheese balls, and grapefruit), watched our Christmas movies (Home Alone, The First Noel, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmations...), and had a quiet (except for a couple brother-sister disagreements) day and acutally got some rest!





Even though we didn't get to spend the day with our families, we spend a lot of the day on the phone, and we never got out of our pjs! A quiet Christmas wasn't so bad after all! All we needed was a little snow!!