Three kids all dressed up and ready for church.
All five of us after the first service.
The kids and I went home after the 6pm service. Sometimes we stay for the 8pm service, but this year we didn't. I had a little laugh when Graydon asked Andy if he was going to the 8pm service.
Curtis was jingling his bell bracelet.
After the kids and I got home, they opened up their presents from Uncle Jeff & Aunt Steph. After watching some Christmas movies, it was finally bedtime. A little while later, this happened.
Christmas Morning
Graydon was the first one up - which is usual. But we got to sleep in until about 8:15am. Our kids are gracious to us on Christmas morning. Bella was actually hoping to sleep in even later!
Before presents, we sing 'Happy Birthday' to Jesus every year.
We rolled dice this year to determine the order of opening gifts. Graydon rolled the highest number followed by Bella and then Curtis. Bella really wanted us to take our time with present opening, so we opened gifts one at a time and were able to see what everyone got. She's a girl after my own heart.
It's hard to tell, but his first gift was a boomerang.
Bella's package contained a water bottle, earrings, headband, and iTunes giftcard.
It is gratifying to watch Curtis open gifts. He gets so animated and excited! Each kid got a board game. Curtis was hoping for Jumanji!
Graydon got Monopoly.
Bella now has a heated blanket for her bed. We love to be cozy and warm in this house.
We took a short intermission to open a gift that Curtis had wrapped. It was the first gift that went under our tree and he placed in there about five days before Christmas.
It was a couple of pictures that he drew!
His next gift was a heavy one - it knocked him backward!
A karaoka machine for our guy who loves to sing!
Graydon received a stadium for his Bey Blade battles with Curtis.
Curtis is in a collared shirt and tie phase so he was pretty pleased with this box.
It contained new pajamas, a collared shirt, and about five new ties!
Now it came time for the kids to open the gifts they picked out for each other. Bella bought Graydon these revolution rings. They are so fun to play with.
Bella opened her gift from Graydon. He taped it up pretty good!
A plant for her room.
Graydon got Curtis this squishy to help get his collection started.
Curtis chose this puzzle cube for Graydon.
Curtis also picked out this salt lamp for Bella.
Bella chose this pizza blanket because "it's random, just like Curtis." So true.
Andy and I also received a gift from Bella. She made me this little book titled "Reasons why I love my mom"
It didn't take long for the tears to fill my eyes.
There are several pages of reasons and each of them are illustrated. I love it so much. And I love her so much!
She also created a painting for Andy with his favorite phrase on it.
She is one thoughtful and talented young lady.
Stocking time!
Candycane hearts.
All sorts of goodies for our road trip to Wisconsin.
Making towers with their treats.
After everything was unwrapped, it was time to try out all of the new stuff. We found some Christmas karaoke songs on You Tube and sung quite a few. We connected the karaoke machine to my phone via blue tooth and were able to follow along with the lyrics on the phone screen while the music came out of the machine. The microphone worked great and there were even disco lights. Such a fun sing-along we had!
Graydon took his boomerang out for a spin.
And we played a 4-5 hour long game of Monopoly. We had to take a couple of breaks before finishing. I think this was the first time that I have even played this game to the bitter end.
And it was a bitter ending for everyone except Andy. He got his hotels up at just the right time and before long squeezed the rest of us dry. $950 rent will do that. And we all kept landing there!
Our Christmas was relaxing and fun and everything we wanted it to be. And it was just the beginning of all the celebrations.
1 comment:
Bella with that scarf makes her look so grown. I love how Curtis accented his pizza blanket with the tie he had on
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