We were blessed this year to have beautiful white snow fall on Christmas Eve!! I just stood outside for a few minutes and enjoyed the beauty and peacefulness of it.
Our Christmas Eve tradition is to have a family dinner and then the children get to open 2 gifts a piece. They are now at the age where they know that these consist of 1. Christmas pajamas and 2. an ornament. They then put on their jammies and hang their ornament on the tree while I take pictures.
This one if our "family" ornament for 2010!
The pictures aren't really clear but this year's ornament theme let the kids know who my "favorite" was!! :)
Zoey always enjoys laying under the tree and watching the kids unwrap!!
Nolan showing off his new jammies!
Grommie made our night even more special by spending it with us! She is watching as the kids set up our new Wii game "family game night". I have to say I was really excited about playing games like, Twister, Life, Yahtzee, and Mouse Trap until I realized playing them on the Wii is NOTHING like playing in real life. I definitely prefer the live versions!! But we still had a great time playing.
The biggest hit of the night was by far the Wii Glee Karaoke that Nolan and Kami picked out for their big sister! EVERYONE took a turn and LOVED it!!
Coltin really got into it!!
We also were able to do some service during the Holidays. We have a neighbor family whose youngest child has leukemia and has been in the hospital for several weeks. Her mom stays with her and that leaves Dad and the other 3 children at home to fend for themselves. We decided to take a meal to them to lighten their load.
The pictures aren't really clear but this year's ornament theme let the kids know who my "favorite" was!! :)
Zoey always enjoys laying under the tree and watching the kids unwrap!!
Nolan showing off his new jammies!
Grommie made our night even more special by spending it with us! She is watching as the kids set up our new Wii game "family game night". I have to say I was really excited about playing games like, Twister, Life, Yahtzee, and Mouse Trap until I realized playing them on the Wii is NOTHING like playing in real life. I definitely prefer the live versions!! But we still had a great time playing.
The biggest hit of the night was by far the Wii Glee Karaoke that Nolan and Kami picked out for their big sister! EVERYONE took a turn and LOVED it!!
Coltin really got into it!!
We also were able to do some service during the Holidays. We have a neighbor family whose youngest child has leukemia and has been in the hospital for several weeks. Her mom stays with her and that leaves Dad and the other 3 children at home to fend for themselves. We decided to take a meal to them to lighten their load.
1 comment:
Love reading about th family....I was so not into the spirit this year....we made it through and hope for a better one next year....what wii games ya got? We like to play Mario kart online with friends on cold/stay home days....
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