We started off our Christmas celebrations by first attending Jacob's first preschool performance. His class did a Christmas program during the Thornton Winterfest and sang five holiday songs- Jingle Bells, Up on the Housetop, Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. It was pretty cute!
We also walked around and found the Christmas tree of ornaments all the preschoolers made and enjoyed the other things they had going on there.
Christmas Sunday I failed again in getting cute pictures of the boys together, this was the best I got. Blake was being silly and even putting on the stockings while I was trying to take their pictures. Oh well.
Jacob wearing his Santa hat getting excited for Christmas.
Christmas Eve we went downtown hoping to see some Christmas decorations but didn't really find anything to look at, so we took the boys to the park since it wasn't too bad outside. They had a lot of fun having their dad to play with them, and it was good to just spend time together that day.
That evening we had a nice Christmas Eve dinner, read our traditional Christmas stories and scriptures, played our rice pudding game (I won) and let the boys open one present.
The boys loved their new superhero pajamas, and then we watched a movie before bedtime.
Jacob was very excited about the idea of Santa this year- it's fun
watching his excitement grow every year. A few days before Christmas
though he was very upset and worried that Santa wouldn't bring him
anything though. When he sat on Santa's lap he only told him that he
wanted cars for Christmas, and Jacob was worried that it wouldn't be
enough haha. But he was very excited Christmas morning and after opening
his gifts he kept saying "This is the best Christmas ever!" I think
Santa brought him everything he wanted after all :)
The boys got spoiled with plenty of toys this year and they spent most of the day playing and watching their new movies- their favorite is Despicable Me 2. Jacob's favorite toys were his Monsters University set, and Spiderman action figure, and his Sheriff car, though he said he loves all of them. Blake got tons of new trains that will keep him happy for a long time. Luke got a smoker cookbook, and a new restaurant style fry slicer among other things, and my big gift was a new camera. Can you tell these pictures now are much clearer than my previous iphone pictures?! I'm glad to have a real camera, and a good one at that, now I just have to learn how to properly use it! We all got some great gifts, we feel very blessed.
We had another great Christmas dinner and enjoyed the evening spending more time together. I love having Christmas with our little family and the traditions that we get to participate in every year. I love the excitement that Christmas brings to our kids and I know next year that will increase even more as they are getting older. I'm grateful that we were able to have a nice holiday together but sad that the season went by way too quickly this year!
