I'm finally getting around to getting all the hundreds of Christmas
pictures organized! I LOVE Christmas and take WAY too many
pictures of the things we did.
The boys had almost 3 weeks off. Claire was in HEAVEN. Then Jason worked
from home quite a bit for weeks since his office was moving buildings.
We all loved that just as much.
And we had family in town for almost a month, so we had such a great break!
We did lots of fun things and as usual, loved celebrating Christmas.
We did a lot of park time, had fun finding our elf, saw Christmas lights,
made a gingerbread house, made a Whataburger gingerbread house (which
won our church decorating contest!!!), delivered presents to friends, decorated
cookies, made a lot of good treats (cinnamon rolls!), and watched lots of movies.
It was hard to go back to reality. We're so grateful for all we have, especially
this time of year. We hope you all had a very merry Christmas!
One of the best parts was seeing Claire SO excited for everything Christmas!
The tree got rearranged every single day. It was so cute. I remember when the
boys did that, and I'll miss it when she grows out of it.
She was NOT that impressed with Santa....
But LOVED the cookie she got afterwards!
We have a tradition in our family that if you ask our elf, you can hold him. (I just can't
not let them hold him when they're little.) Chase LOVED holding him and watching
TV with him and napping with him when he was little. And now Claire loves him.
So if you treat him nice, you're able to hold him. For a little bit. :)
Gingerbread train! Claire said CHOO CHOO! about 100 times!
Jason brought home donuts from work and the kids were in heaven!
It was nice weather a lot, so we walked to the park lots of times.
Christmas morning!!!
Gotta have the silly string tradition....
Grant got some geodes the whole family thought was fun to crack open....
Merry Christmas!
