This year due to the snow on Christmas Eve we decided to "pack up" our Christmas morning celebration and bring it along. That way we could do Christmas morning at my parent's house and not have to go back and forth to Hannibal like we normally do. While it worked out pretty well, I'm not sure we will do it again. Packing everything up and then packing it up to bring it back home was a lot of extra work. But, it was better than risking not being able to get home & all our Christmas presents stuck in Hannibal. One of the benefits was having our own personal photographer,Gramy, to capture the joy of Christmas morning.
Opening Stockings- Faith got Rapunzel hair.
Giving daddy "loves" to say thank you for their home made block set.
The girls loved opening envelopes each day in December with scripture about Jesus' birth. This was a gift from Grace's Sunday School teacher. Christmas morning the envelope contained this ornament.
Here we are reading the last day of our Countdown book, about baby Jesus.
The kids opening gifts. Titus got a play mat & some cars to grow into.
The girls saying thank you for each others gifts. Grace picked out a ring stamp set for Faith. Faith choose a princess painting set for Grace.
Titus checks out his new basketball hoop. (I got this at a yard sale for under $1!)
Each year the kids get a new Christmas book. Due to some technical ordering difficulties this year they got a book to share.
Playing with their new blocks. It was so fun seeing how much they loved them!
The kids in their new Christmas pj's we are so blessed!!!!!
This year for Christmas Jeremy and I did "free" gifts for each other. However things got a bit crazy close to Christmas with us getting the flu/finishing the block set. So we are still finishing them up. Jeremy is making me a "secret" book. You know in the movies when they take a book off a shelf and it is actually a box that opens to reveal hidden contents? He is making me one! Very neat. I am working on a project for a future man room or office for him. He wants a wall of his favorite quotes. So I am collecting frames and making them into a collection for him to use as his changing quote wall.
