After a wonderful Christmas Eve service at church, we came home and ate dinner then got to our traditions...
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| reading the story of Jesus' birth in the The Jesus Storybook Bible (our favorite children's Bible) |
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| Then we read the Night Before Christmas...this was my book as a child:) |
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| really while Jeff read, I tried to keep this child from disturbing them. |
Christmas Morning!!! Such a magical time!
It's so fun as a parent to see it all come together.
I shop for months finding bargains and trying to figure out how to make this day great for our large family!
I shop on local Facebook garage sale sites a lot and got a good bit of their toys from there. I also shop on Zulily and then good ole Target with my Redcard:).
I also sell a good bit of stuff on our local Facebook sites, so I had some money to spend.
Even with all that, it can be expensive to have Santa come for 4 kids! I'm so thankful that we were able to get them all what they wanted. We do no take that for granted!
They were just a LITTLE excited Christmas morning...
Of course, we had to try out all the new stuff asap!
Then the baby decided to finally wake up (at almost 10 am...she loves to sleep)
It was a wonderful celebration with our family of six! I am so thankful for a laid back day!
I'll post the rest of our family celebrations at some point:).
