We had such a wonderful Christmas! (I know, I know - It's about time I get caught up:)) On Christmas Eve we added one thing to our regular traditions. This year when we read the nativity from the scriptures, the kids acted it out. It was really neat to see. So neat, that we did it twice because Sydney wanted to be Mary too.
The we watched Mr. Kruger's Christmas. One of my very favorite of our Christmas Eve traditions. Then the kids went outside to sprinkle their reindeer food.
After some dessert we wondered why we hadn't heard from Alonzo Snodgrass yet. He brings us presents every Christmas Eve and we really didn't want him to forget us this year. I remembered a few times when I was young that we just started looking for his presents after dessert. We decided to give it a try. It wasn't long before we found his presents in the girls' closet. He was super sneaky this year. We don't know when he put them there, but he managed to sneak them in without us hearing him at all.
We opened our presents from Alonzo, and also our pajama/slippers gift. The kids quickly got dressed in their Christmas pajamas.
This year the girls got to host the Christmas Eve sleep over in their room. They really wanted Luke to stay in there all night. He stayed for a little bit, but once he started stealing all their candy they decided they didn't really want him to sleep in there.
They left cookies and also some fruit for Santa. They left some very sweet notes and pictures too.
CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!
He came! He came! Santa came and spoiled us good. Jerry and I really wanted to make Christmas day last as long as possible. We didn't want to make it a race to open all the presents as fast as we could. We spent about an hour opening presents. Then we decided to take a little break because each of the kids had a big toy they wanted to play with. So we paused for a few hours and made our traditional huge Christmas morning breakfast. We ate and just spent some time putting together some of the toys. The kids went outside to jump on their new pogo sticks, and Sydney rode her scooter.
The kids' good friend, Hannah from next door got a pogo stick too. She saw them outside pogo sticking (is that a word?) So she came over for a bit and they played outside. Then we reminded the kids that there were still some more presents to open. We finished opening the presents and just enjoyed being together as a family. It truly was such a great day. After dinner we were reading a note that our special Elf on the Shelf left us. On the back he left a hint that implied that there might be a special present from him somewhere. The kids searched the house and found a family gift that our Elf, Kris left us.
The day after Christmas we got our our White Christmas. It was a HUGE snow storm. I guess if it can't come on Christmas, the day after is fine right? Luke LOVED it - until his hands felt the cold, wet snow. Then he wasn't such a fan.
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