yep, I'm finally getting to blog about Christmas... I might be a little behind. To make a long story short, we had a great holiday. It was wonderful having paul home and not worrying about getting homework done :), and I think the presents were pretty fun too. Evidently I didn't take any pictures of Christmas Eve though--oops! we made our traditional bread bowls and soups (beef stew and potato leek), and we took some to a new family in our ward. They are clearly in the military too, as they were moving in on Christmas Eve (eek!) despite having 4 kids under 5... so they were too busy to join us. It was fun to meet them. We also had our reading of the Christmas story from the scriptures, with all of us playing multiple roles to act it out (it may have been better that I didn't get pictures of that!). The kids got to sleep in front of the fireplace downstairs in the attempt to catch Santa filling stockings in the night. they may have missed him, but the stockings were all nicely plump in the morning (again, no pictures... I'm feeling a theme here). but the tree was also well-stocked, and it kept us busy for a while after breakfast.
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| look a picture! |
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| Rayna's stocking grapefruit! her favorite :) |
I think everyone was very happy with their presents, lots of new toys, and some treats too. I was proud of my girls, they each managed to get 'real' presents for the other kids, so they're now experiencing a bit of the giving, as well as the getting.
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| Malachi LOVES toys in a way my girls never really have, so it was especially gratifying to see him lovingly playing with everything... even taking the bubble-bath for a tractor ride! |
when we were finished with presents, we decided to go outside to enjoy the sun for a little while... but mom and dad made the kids put on thick socks first... I think we were forgiven pretty quickly too!
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| the real present... |
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| and of course, dad got in on the action too! |
and later that afternoon, we had our first new popsicles... because hot chocolate is too boring by itself now :) j/k. we got this great popsicle maker from grandma f, and have been making dozens of fancy popsicles for the last few months! starting with hot-chocolate and marshmallows:
a couple days later we had to take the tree down, because it was getting so dried out, Paul threw it in the backyard until compost-day, but the kids got ahold of it before then.
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| literally, got ahold of it! they drug it all over the backyard and had a grand old time playing with it! |
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| they even carpeted the trampoline... silly kids, those needles hurt when you jump on them! |
we love Christmas! even when we reflect back on it at the end of February :)
1 comment:
I too often forget to take pictures of important events. It all works out. Looks like your kids had a blast.
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