Christmas Eve was received with great anticipation. We had countdown chains and calendars all around the house.
It took me about 5 hours to plan and cook our Christmas Eve Feast because I had to make it with ingredients from my Iodine free diet. Happy to say it turned out delicious. We had roasted potatoes, apple salad, grilled chicken and a cinnamon drink.
We waited for Spencer to come home from work at 7:00 to enjoy our meal together as a family.
After eating we watched the Nativity movie from Living Scriptures. Spencer and the kids both agreed that this was the longest 30- minute movie ever
After finding as many excuses as possible we finally let the kids go by the tree to open one present.
They were delighted to see what they had gotten each other, even A.D. seemed excited to unwrap his.
Josh was out of it, we had to wake him up and when we did he refused to leave his bed. We had to drag him to our living room, but as soon as he saw all the toys set up on the couches he forgot how tired he was. His first response was My BIG chu chu train and raced over to his train and hugged it. He also loved his train engineer hat.
Favorite Christmas decor: Julia-Jingle All the Way singing dolls; Josh-train under the tree
Favorite nativity: Julia-Little People; Josh-Mini nativity set; Mommy’s-Willow tree
Favorite movies to watch: 1) The Polar Express; 2) How the Grinch stole Christmas; 3) Elf
Favorite songs to sing: 1) Jingle Bells, 2) Santa Claus is Coming to town; 3) Rudolph
Favorite ornaments: Julia-her tumbling girl; Josh –picture of Jules
Favorite place to be: Our front room; they spent hours playing with the train under the tree and my village pretending to knock on doors and ring door bells around the houses.
It took me about 5 hours to plan and cook our Christmas Eve Feast because I had to make it with ingredients from my Iodine free diet. Happy to say it turned out delicious. We had roasted potatoes, apple salad, grilled chicken and a cinnamon drink.
We waited for Spencer to come home from work at 7:00 to enjoy our meal together as a family.
After eating we watched the Nativity movie from Living Scriptures. Spencer and the kids both agreed that this was the longest 30- minute movie ever
After finding as many excuses as possible we finally let the kids go by the tree to open one present.
They were delighted to see what they had gotten each other, even A.D. seemed excited to unwrap his.
The kids went to bed that night at 9:00 pm Santa’s elves stayed up until 1:30 AM. Julia made sure she left some chocolate chip cookies (which she helped make); Santa told her they were his favorite, and a glass of milk. She also spread all over our front porch some magic oatmeal for the reindeer.
Christmas Morning came along. Julia woke up at 6:45 anxious to see if Santa had come. She was thrilled to see that Santa had managed to make her a unicorn pillow pet and had brought her the princess zhu zhu pet that she wanted.
Christmas Morning came along. Julia woke up at 6:45 anxious to see if Santa had come. She was thrilled to see that Santa had managed to make her a unicorn pillow pet and had brought her the princess zhu zhu pet that she wanted.
Josh was out of it, we had to wake him up and when we did he refused to leave his bed. We had to drag him to our living room, but as soon as he saw all the toys set up on the couches he forgot how tired he was. His first response was My BIG chu chu train and raced over to his train and hugged it. He also loved his train engineer hat.
A.D woke up at 10 AM. He was starting to get sick and since he is too little to care about waking up early to open presents, his present was sleeping in for as long as he wanted.
Santa was so good to these kids this year, but then again they deserved it. 
There were even more surprises in their stockings: lip gloss and princess pea for Julia and hot wheels fire engine and Super Why for Josh and of course some candy and an apple.
Josh was really happy about the apple he could care less about everything else.
He ate Julia’s apple too.
There were even more surprises in their stockings: lip gloss and princess pea for Julia and hot wheels fire engine and Super Why for Josh and of course some candy and an apple.
Josh was really happy about the apple he could care less about everything else.
He ate Julia’s apple too.
As Julia and Josh were standing by the living room they noticed a big bulk being covered by a blanket. At first they didn’t care, they probably thought it was one of my messes, but then they became really inquisitive.
They found a note explaining to them that there was one more present under the blanket and that Lito and Lita had worked really hard on helping him build it.
Out came the blanket and there it was a Ford F-150. Josh screamed: My car, my car and Julia couldn’t stop smiling. They absolutely loved it and jumped in it right away for their first test drive. Julia did fine, Josh drove over me.
They found a note explaining to them that there was one more present under the blanket and that Lito and Lita had worked really hard on helping him build it.
Out came the blanket and there it was a Ford F-150. Josh screamed: My car, my car and Julia couldn’t stop smiling. They absolutely loved it and jumped in it right away for their first test drive. Julia did fine, Josh drove over me.
After playing with our toys we got a call from Spencer’s family wondering where we were. We had missed the opportunity of talking to Spencer’s younger brother, who is a mission in Tennessee; thank goodness he comes home in February.
We headed out to the grandparent’s house and stayed there the rest of the day.
The highlight of the day was seeing Spencer’s mom and dad opening their presents from all of us kids. We took a picture of all the grand kids together and framed it for them, thanks Megan for putting it all together.
Elaine was so touched by the picture that she started crying, something that all of the daughter’s in law were anticipating. I am glad we could give them something special for all of the special things they do for us.
When we came home we had to take the truck out on the street for a ride, even though it was freezing the kids loved playing with their new favorite toy.
We headed out to the grandparent’s house and stayed there the rest of the day.
The highlight of the day was seeing Spencer’s mom and dad opening their presents from all of us kids. We took a picture of all the grand kids together and framed it for them, thanks Megan for putting it all together.
Elaine was so touched by the picture that she started crying, something that all of the daughter’s in law were anticipating. I am glad we could give them something special for all of the special things they do for us.
When we came home we had to take the truck out on the street for a ride, even though it was freezing the kids loved playing with their new favorite toy.
Our Favorite Things This Christmas:
Favorite Christmas decor: Julia-Jingle All the Way singing dolls; Josh-train under the tree
Favorite nativity: Julia-Little People; Josh-Mini nativity set; Mommy’s-Willow tree
Favorite movies to watch: 1) The Polar Express; 2) How the Grinch stole Christmas; 3) Elf
Favorite songs to sing: 1) Jingle Bells, 2) Santa Claus is Coming to town; 3) Rudolph
Favorite ornaments: Julia-her tumbling girl; Josh –picture of Jules
Favorite place to be: Our front room; they spent hours playing with the train under the tree and my village pretending to knock on doors and ring door bells around the houses.
1 comment:
So very cute! Glad the kids had such a great Christmas. Matt says that there is no way we are ever buying our kids on of those cars. We will see! Christmas is wonderful!
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