Christmas Day

11:51- We are done opening gifts. It has been a wonderful morning. Everyone was so generous and the boys and I are crazy happy with the wonderful things we got.

Some hightlights from our family:

Samuel: DS Lite gaming system from Santa and Legos, legos, legos
Benjamin: Trucks, building toys, books, keyboard
Daddy: Santa brought him (us) a Wii. He also got a DVD burner- here come more awesome videos
Mommy: An ipod nano from daddy- WOW! A navigational system to be shared with daddy.

Santa brought us all fishing poles!

Thank you all for the awesome gifts. We truly love them. We wish you could be here to share with us.

A link to some Christmas pictures below.

Christmas Day 2007

8:00am- Everyone is up. Santa has come. They are savoring their stockings. Samuel is just like uncle Frank, taking FOREVER to look at the collectors cards he got in his stocking. Much more later. We are just getting started.

Christmas Eve Day

7:54pm-
The boys are in bed! Since our last post this is what we have done. We had our traditional fondue dinner, yummy! After cleaning up, we made some sugar cookies and the boys decorated gingerbread cookies for Santa. We lit our last Advent candle and read the Christmas story in Luke. Next was sprinkling our reindeer food (oatmeal and glitter) out on the lawn. Finally to our favorite tradition, the Christmas Eve book exchange. We concluded the evening by tracking Santa on Norad- he was in Novia Scotia. Now to straighten up the house, finish wrapping and get the gifts out. Good night!

Christmas Eve 2007- click on picture above for more pictures from the evening

3:42pm- home from church, getting the boys settled with a Christmas movie. Here is a family picture.

1:23pm (CST)- Spent the morning on the playground. That helped burn off some energy. Now we are off to church. Let the celebration begin!

9am

We will attempt to put up photos and brief descriptions of our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day activities to keep you all posted. Kim will be doing most of the typing so don't look for too much clever stuff! Look for continued updates to this post. We will label a new one Christmas day for tomorrow.

Merry Christmas- We miss you all.

Jingle Bells 2007

Some video of the boys getting into the holiday spirit.

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