Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve (for real this time). We read the story of Jesus' birth, using little figurines to illustrate. The three are all wearing their new slippers, which they love!  They were sure to leave the fireplace door ajar, and the front door unlocked, just in case. They left a plate of cookies and carrot sticks for Santa and the reindeer. They went to bed right when they were asked. We are so excited!

Christmas morning, we found a note from Santa saying thank you for the cookies, and that Rudolf and the reindeer liked the carrots. Annabelle read it and said, "So Santa IS real! And Rudolf is real, too!"
After cinnamon rolls, we dove into our presents. More jewelry kits, more books, dance shoes, dance clothes, Build-A-Bear certificates, more socks, a pair of kid cross-country-skis, 
lincoln building logs, boots, crayons, color wonder marker and pad sets (by the way, these were a hit! They stopped opening presents to color. There was even a fight over them until they realized they each got their own!), lots of socks (I can throw away the ones with holes now). Annabelle got her own set of scriptures, Jonah got a new pin-striped suit, 
clothes, wresting singlets (a spiderman one and a camouflage one - adorable!),
and to continue the list: picture frame, mop (I am so excited about this steam mop!), movies, flashlights (why is it that kids get so excited about flashlights?), and even more presents. My goodness! My two projects this year were picture puzzle blocks and the Grandma Carol Hallam picture story book. 

This year I worked on projects and picked out a few books, most of the other presents from us were picked out by Ezra. He is very good at picking out good presents!

As soon as present-opening was done, Jonah suited up for cross-country skiing outside. We were so happy he liked the skis present. We were worried he wouldn't, because last year he didn't have a good experience cross-country skiing. But he said it was the best present and headed right out to try them out. He even went down-hill skiing with them! Annabelle put on hers also and joined him. She didn't have poles so she wanted to use Ezra's. So huge for her! But she didn't care. It was pretty funny to watch.

Merry Christmas every one! I hope you had a wonderful day! I hope your dreams are coming true!