We had a very relaxing and pleasant Christmas. (This very pregnant mama was very thankful for that!) :)
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| Here are the kids in their pajamas ready to go to the Christmas Eve service. Cuties! |
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| After the service Mrs. Dianne gave them sleeping bags complete with night lights and eye covers. (a big hit!) They of course had to open them up and try them out as soon as we got home. |
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| And then they got to open some presents from Gigi and Papa. Just one of the many jerseys he got this Christmas! |
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| The one request by Clark for Christmas: football mans. |
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| All about Hello Kitty these days... |
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| And then they headed to bed so Santa could come! |
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| He made somewhat of a mess and knocked over the fireplace screen and dropped his milk glass. |
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| Running in to check out the loot! |
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| After we played with Santa toys, we headed over to Gigi and Papa's for breakfast with the fam. Clark insisted on Luke wearing his jersey with him. :) |
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| More presents! |
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| Our best present this year: cousin Sarah Catherine! |
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| And that afternoon we finished opening all the presents with J, J, B, and SC. We had a great fun time, and yes, I am THAT aunt that gave my nephew a drum set. :) |
Looking back I realize many of these pictures are consumed with presents. I don't like that. I guess that's just when I had my camera out. What I couldn't capture in a snapshot was that most importantly we were so thankful this year to be with family, for a precious unmet baby coming, for health, for the opportunity to help others and love on friends and strangers this season. I did really miss Mimi and kept thinking about her. Thank goodness we have the hope and promise of seeing her again in heaven! Thankful also that we have the freedom to worship God and celebrate the birth of Jesus at this time.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
1 comment:
so happy to see Clark got his "football mans!" Jack still gets a kick out of that. :)
Looks like you had a wonderful christmas. Nice to just be home, I'm sure!
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