Our Christmas morning started out pretty easy going since we waited until the afternoon when Aaron, Jessi, and Daniel got here to open presents. Amy slept in and then it still took her forever to notice/remember that Santa had come! (We had Santa put all the presents downstairs instead of under the tree so that the boys wouldn't get into them.) Santa brought all of the little kids bikes so they got to play with those during the morning and open their stockings. (Aiden, our bruiser, woke up with a bloody nose that morning.)
Finally time to open presents! We passed the camera around, hoping to get candid shots of everyone, but at least half of the pictures the kids took came out very blurry, and it turned out that everyone liked taking pictures of the little kids, so we have tons to those! Oh well! We WERE all there, having fun, and happy!
The kids also got a giant trampoline that took us two days to put together. I don't seem to have any pictures of the kids on it though! We really felt spoiled with gifts on this Christmas. Thanks so much to all the grandparents for helping make it wonderful for the kids!
My Christmas goals for next year:
-Make an advent calendar for the kids that has a small activity to do each day. The activities will be something that will help us remember Jesus Christ and service.
-Make or buy a nativity that is for the kids. Teach them to act out the nativity story. Read the story from the scriptures.
-Teach the kids a few Christmas hymns.
-Coordinate a service project for the whole family to do together.
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