A Very Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! We sure love this time of year, and have had a wonderful Christmas. A few days before Christmas Eli's Joy School group performed the nativity and some songs at a local nursing home. Eli was an adorable Shepard.

Then Christmas Eve we did an family nativity with Eli reprising his role as shepard, Logan as a wise man (he said to me, "Who knelt the worship Baby Jesus? That's who I want to be."), Ali as Mary, Jason as Joseph, Korrali as an angel, and Uncle JD as the inn keeper. I naarated and video taped and Auntie Lianna was an angel's helper:)

We told the kids they could wake up at 5am like normal, but that they had to wait in their rooms until 7am to wake us up to go downstairs. We set up the portable DVD player in Logan's room so they would have something extra fun to do while they waited. A little after 2am I noticed a light on and went to investigate: Ali had her light on in her room and was quietly playing...she mistook the 2 for a 5 in her excitement! I tucked her back in and then noticed the light again at promptly 5am...Logan had gotten up and woken Ali to come in his room and wait with him. Shortly thereafter Eli joined them and I had to get a picture of these three excited kids before I went back to sleep for a little while:)

Everyone was very pleased with their Christmas loot. Ali loves a new puppy game she got for her leapster, as well as her paw patrol toys and horse for her American Girl dolls.

Eli loves the pirate ship and ninja turtles Santa brought him, and often the turtles join the pirates on their adventures. He also loves his ninja turtle costume shell and weapons and paw patrol pups.

Logan made a last minute request to change his gift from Santa to be a magic hat and tricks, and we are so glad the elves hadn't made his first request yet and could make the switch because he is the greatest magician ever! He also loves his Torch lego transformer and loved his remote control helicopter for the few rides until it broke...we're hoping the store will let us get a new one!

Jason and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the kids love every minute of the day. We also loved having JD's family here, especially since they are moving in a week. Ali asked the other day, "Why does everyone keep moving away from us?" and I want to know the same thing! We will miss them so much!

Merry Christmas!