Our Christmas has indeed been merry! We have enjoyed time together with family and friends and eaten WAY more sweets than we needed to! Christmas only comes once a year and there are just certain sweets that only taste good during Christmas time! Right?! ;o) If I posted all the pics I have taken in the last few days it would take me literally hours! So, I will pick my favs and highlight our Christmas for you. Our Christmas Eve was spent at my parents making homemade pizza, opening presents and playing games. Christmas morning we spent at home. We finished our Advent story with our main character ending up at the manger to witness Christ's birth. And then with much anticipation, our kids opened their gifts! We 'played' with new toys all day long and then went back out to my parents for sloppy joes and spent time with some more friends that they invited over. We played Chicken Tracks, ate laughed, ate and had a fun time! My dad recieved the game Imagine if.. and boy, is it fun! We had some good laughs playing it! Our family was given a Nintendo Gamecube for Christmas as a family present and we have been enjoying playing it together as a family.
An update on our move: We found out that the couple interested were not able to get financed. We did have another lady call who is interested so we will see... please keep us in your prayers that God will send Danny a job or move us soon!
Our little elf....Caleb James 1st Christmas!
Ben, Abby, Caleb and Becca ready for Christmas!
A family pic taken Christmas Eve
A sweet pic of Caleb and Presley!
Matt and Ben ready to tear into presents!
Mark and Rachel were told to "look cute'!
Abby was thrilled with her Princess Art Set!
Ben was excited with his Magic Show Kit....and
yes, he has been putting on shows for us!
The new Barbie movie surprised Becca!
This year our gifts to our family were homemade personality snowmen ornaments! We all worked together in stitching,designing and decorating them. We had fun making them and they were a big hit! ;o)
Matt and Presley holding up theirs.
A close-up view
Mark and Rachel's. Mark loves Elvis and works
out all the time and Rachel loves green and wears
her hair in cute styles...we designed their snowmen
accordingly.
A close-up of their personality snowmen.
G-pa and G-ma with theirs.
Mom's has a bun hairdo and dad has his crossword
puzzle book. And they are both modeling wire glasses.
Caleb got a phone and a BIG bottle!
A greedy game of Disney Monopoly!
Christmas Morning:
Presents waiting to be torn into!
Bright-eyed Christmas Baby! Aww!
Ben digging the loot out of his stocking!
Caleb working on his new laptop!
Ben's Hotwheels Stunt Racetrack was one of
his favorite gifts!
Abby opened up a new baby that she has named
Hannah.
Becca recieved a sewing machine!
Ben modeling his new cowboy boots and toy gun.
Becca opened up a pair of pink cowgirl boots.
and so did Abby! We got a good deal on them!
There are many more pics but I am tired and you probably are too! I will post pics of them playing with their new stuff later. Enjoy HIS season!