Christmas morning...

 Christmas morning is always so fun at our house...I just love it.  Usually Anthony is the first one up (around 7:45) and he runs downstairs and sees what he gets and always comes back up and tells Jake and I what Santa brought him. Then, he will run back downstairs and find something else that he is excited about and then will come tell us again.  He does this multiple times going through his whole stocking.  It is so cute.  Then, the girls get up and go down to see what they got too.  By that point, we are awake and join them to see what they got.  Love it!  This year we had to wake Owen up around 9 to get him to come out and play, but he was super excited when he did!   

Anthony:

To Read: Ninjago books

To Play: Legos

To Wear: Cleat skins for his wrestling shoes

Santa: Motorbike jersey and gloves

Jenna:

To Read: Fancy Nancy Readers

To Play: Doodle Bear

To Wear: New dresses

Santa: Udraw and real make up

Lydia:

To Read: Princess Stories

To Play: Doodle Bear

To Wear: Pajama dress and boots

Santa: Pinky Pie My LIttle Pony baby

Owen:

To Read: Brown Bear and 5 Little Puppies

To Play: Sea animals

To Wear: A monkey shirt and new church pants

Santa: Ride on Pony

We are so blessed to be able to have such a wonderful Christmas in our home.  I am so grateful for all of our blessings and that we are able to have so many of our wants and needs taken care of!

Christmas Eve...

 I am still in shock that this even happened and that we are on to 2013!  Christmas Eve was as usual down at the Williams house.  We always have a good time and eat yummy food down there, this year was no exception.  Grandma and Grandpa Williams got each family a camel book about Christmas and a little camel to go with it and the kids were so excited!  They handed out the ornaments to the adults and this year we got a boy and girl farmer to symbolize the land that we bought and how we had become farmers now.  It was really cute.  

After the fun at the Williams it was time to come home, read the scripture stories of Jesus' arrival on Earth and act them out with the kids each having a separate nativity to set up.  It was awesome and the spirit was so strong in our home.  Then the kid set out cookies for Santa, made sure their reindeer food was out and after setting out their stockings ran off to bed.  I was surprised, but they never even once came out!  What good little kids...Santa was already on his way via the Santa tracker so they wanted to make sure they were snug in their beds.  I love the magic of Christmas with children around!