Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas again this year. Such a blessing to have our family and our health to enjoy time together. Christmas Eve, we had lunch with Mike's dad. We then went back to our home and opened our gifts with the kids. The kids really enjoyed their gifts, but by far their favorites was Logan's new cell phone and Madison's new iPod!! To see the excitement on their faces makes it all worth it. We then had a candlelight Christmas Eve service at our church. This is a special time spent with our church family and a time for us to reflect on the reason why we all celebrate this great season. At the end of the service our pastor called all the children up front and read to them the Christmas story from the Bible.
Christmas morning started VERY early at our house, as our kids were awake at 1:15am to see what Santa had brought. We were pretty sure that he must have JUST left it because Logan said he heard something outside and our dogs were barking! We had to make them go back to bed around 2:30am; and lo and behold they were back up around 7am! (We are so making it a rule next year that no one will get out of bed until
6:30am!)Logan got a Wii, and Madison got the Molly American doll along with other things. Mammaw and Pappaw always come by early and check out the loot that Santa left for the kids.
We always go to my mom's at lunch Christmas Day and to Mike's mom's that evening.
We had a wonderful day with our families and actually got to enjoy some sunlight afer a solid week of rain!
At my mom's I got a picture of ALL 29 of us who were there.
I am very grateful for each and every blessing that God has blessed us with.
Happy Birthday, Jesus!