We only captured two pictures of our Christmas celebration, but that is okay. The more we can set our phones aside and be present in each moment - THE BETTER!
We attended Christmas at The Bridge on Thursday night. We always love gathering to celebrate Jesus's birth with our church family.
Jake was off Friday thru Monday. We played A LOT of games together. Our favorites this Christmas have been Taco vs Burrito, Slamwich, and Safari Trumps. We also enjoyed a Christmas movie most evenings: The Star, It's a Wonderful Life, The Santa Claus, The 12 dogs of Christmas. We also played outside, when warm enough, and got in a daily walk. We also were able to see family via FaceTime.
Christmas EVE we used up a Flip N Fly gift card and let the kids jump for an hour. The kids opened the Christmas Eve box, our annual tradition. They each had a set of new pizza jammies (pictured above). The box also said we would be eating pizza for dinner. That evening we joined our friends, the Meshaw's, in their annual tradition of going out for pizza on Christmas Eve. It's always fun spending time with dear friends.
Christmas DAY we told the kids beforehand, that they could not wake us up until 7:30am. I snuck out of bed at 7:20 so Jake was there to receive all the excitement and be piled on top of at 7:30. We prepped cinnamon rolls, made coffee, read LUKE 2 and then opened our gifts. After opening gifts, I made a big breakfast: homemade cinnamon rolls, eggs, bacon, fruit. More games were played that day. Some of us stayed in our jammies all day. We enjoyed a late lunch/early dinner of ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green beans, corn and zweibach. Afterwards, more games & playing occured, we went to the park, then came home for a Christmas movie and cookies. It was a wonderful day together.
Found a couple more pictures!
0 comments:
Post a Comment