Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful time of year, this is by far my favorite time of year, I love that everyone celebrates the birth of Jesus, knowingly or not.  We look forward to Christmas, each year, the kids are all so much fun, and we get excited about all the traditions we have started and continue to start.  This Christmas we decided to stay home, and were so happy we did since Santa brought the big boys two new bikes, and Kendall a new kitchen.  What great planning on our part!!

We spent Christmas eve,  preparing cinnamon rolls, to give to family, and of course posole. We learned about posole while living in Albuquerque, and quickly became hooked.  It is a traditional soup that is served every Christmas eve, or day! It is so yummy, and fun to make.  Then we went to church, it was a beautiful service, with wonderful music, and dramas, after church we went to some friends house.   Before we knew it, the time had clipped away, and it was near 10:oopm, so we had to hurry to get home, so we did not miss Santa.  The big boys were so excited, but surprisingly slept very well.  Daddy on the other hand was so excited for Christmas also so he did not sleep.  

Christmas morning arrived very early, not because of the boys, but because of the big boy!  Kevin was so excited to see the boys got bikes..and wanted to make sure he got it on fill, so he woke up about4 am, I told him to go back to sleep about every 15 minutes, finally he got up about 5:45.  He kept coming into our room and asking if I was getting up yet, I told him to wake me when the boys got up, he said I would miss out on them seeing their new bikes, hello...you are filming it right?? He did not like that response, so needless to say, I was up about  6:45.  We sat and we waited, and waited, and waited....Finally Kaden got up about 7:30, and Kylor soon after, and it was all caught on video YEAH!  We had to wake up baby girl Kendall about 8:00am since we couldn't hold the boys off any longer.  We listened to the Christmas story, found baby Jesus and put Him back in the manger, read our letter from Santa, and then tore into the presents. What fun!