Our Christmas morning started WAY too early - but we had fun.
Before opening presents we read all the notes in the "Jesus' stocking".
We had a FHE at the beginning of December and talked about Christ's birth and I asked the girls if we gave a "gift" to the Savior for Christmas what they thought he would want and we all agreed that He would want us to be grateful and give thanks for all of our blessings and then serve others. So, throughout the month of December individually we have been writing down service we given (or service that was done for us) and also things we are thankful for. We put the notes into the special stocking. The stocking was STUFFED and it was so fun to read all of the things that were written. It was a great way to start the day and a new Christmas tradition for our family (we did something similar before but this worked better).
Santa spoiled us again this year...
We spent the remainder of the day:
Davis played with boxes/ garbage. Hallie read one of the 50 new books she got.
Campbell ate lots and lots of sugar (btw the buzz light year pez dispenser was his very favorite gift). The girls tried on their new clothes.
Campbell watched movies on his new Teddy Bear's tummy.
Trevor installed the replacement DVD player in our truck and realized he can't see out of the rear view mirror now.
3 comments:
Thank you so much for posting this. It helps us share a little part of your Christmas. I think the Jesus Stocking is a wonderful tradition to have and I loved seeing the girls sweaters and aprons. It looks like Campbell got some great toys too. And of course at one year old what is more fun than empty boxes and other trash. Trevor will just have to use the side mirrors. As usual we didn't see any pics of Kathryn. :(
Glad you had such a very merry Christmas. Hope your New Year is just as great.
Love!
Dad
It looks like you had a great Christmas! I love your Christmas Miracle too:) I am with you, it went by way too fast, I can't believe it is already over. I love your stocking idea, I am going to have to copy that next year!
What a fun day! I love that the kids got to hang out all day and play with all their new toys, one of the advantages of not being close to family... no running around ALL DAY LONG!! We missed you and are so glad you had such a nice Christmas!
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