Its been a busy season. I didn't even decorate the house as much as I usually do. It is still nice and festive, but I haven't had to urge to do all the work - when would there be time? Anyway, this year we did not even visit Santa. The kids don't seem to mind, considering last year they weren't totally sure about Santa anyway. See that photo by clicking here! Instead, the boys wrote letters to Santa, which seemed to take the place of a visit, no problem. Its kinda fun to do something different. We asked Zippy the Elf to take these notes back to Santa for us...and he did!
We had a silly white elephant gift exchange with our high school small group of 11th and 12th graders. John came away with this helmet that the kids are having a great time with.
I wasn't so sure about making Eden the bobsledder...but she seemed to like it. Safety first at this house, folks.
We made our trip out to Irvine Park for the Christmas light display on 12/23. By the time we arrived at the park, 2/3 of the kids were sleeping! But Logan enjoyed the park and stories. Right after we took this photo we realized Logan and Bennett were wearing each other's coats ("I thought this felt so tight"! said Logan!).
Christmas Eve before Dad went to the first service at church. We met up with him at the 3pm service since weather was supposed to be super snowy by the 5pm service. We all got ready and set before John left so I didn't have to do too much getting set without him.
Cutest girl and cutest outfit!!
Trying hard to get a few photos of the kids before church...I even got a few where they are all looking!
Photo with mom before we left for church.
We started a little Christmas Even tradition - the kids open one gift: including an ornament for each of them to hang on the tree, and some washed-up pjs to wear that night.
They were clearly all thrilled about their little gifts.
Happy Christmas Eve! And to all a good night....
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