Christmas Festivities

Oh boy...Christmas!  We started Christmas on Christmas Eve morning!  We went to Carey's parents' house for a late breakfast.  The kids got to Skype with Auntie Kelly and Brannon (their cousin).

Grandpa Steve and Grandma Jackie got the kids (and Carey and I) lots of nice gifts, and Haley, Abby and Seth did a good job of being polite as they opened them!

Ohhh...all these gifts are so exciting!

Seth dragged his bag of opened gifts to the computer to show Brannon (on Skype)!

Abby enjoying one of her gifts!

Watching a movie with Grandma Jackie!

 Later that afternoon, Auntie Laura came over and we exchanged gifts and got to spend some good time together:)

Seth threw a little fit that the gifts were for Auntie Laura and not for him.

WE LOVE AUNTIE LAURA!

 Christmas eve we went to our church's candlelight service.   Carey went early, 'cause he was playing guitar, and Laura, the kids and I came a little later and brought cookies to share with everyone!  The service was great, and all three kids did so good dancing around, singing, making friends with the little girl next to us, and even holding their candles (yes, I let the girls each hold their own candle).

Christmas morning, we had a good time at home.  We took our time opening gifts, played, had some delicious breakfast, and played some more.

This year I decided to have the girls get each other gifts, so that they could (hopefully) learn that it can be SO fun and exciting to give gifts.  This is what they picked out for each other, and they happened to be both of the girls favorite gifts this year!

Seth loves his new drum!

 After a while we decided to go on a bike ride and enjoy being outside before the rain came.  When we got back, uncle Nate came over and we played some more!  Then, when Seth woke up from his nap, we had doughnuts (instead of cake...because I forgot to make one) and sang happy birthday to Jesus.

It was a perfect day to take the girls for a ride because there weren't many cars on the road!

Late Christmas afternoon we went to Grammie Lori and Poppa Phil's.  We hung out, had a delicious dinner and opened more gifts.

Playing dress-up at Grammie Lori and Poppa Phil's.