Christmas Eve at Home

We got to celebrate our Christmas at home on Christmas Eve this year. It was a lot of fun, a relaxed evening to "do" Christmas just he way we wanted to.

The girls to to decorate a birthday cake for Jesus.Isabella's joy in reading the Christmas story out of her Bible.
After this Faron read us the Christmas story out of his bible while we acted it out with our plush nativity set, and paused to sing all the songs.
Normally we don't get the kids presents for Christmas, gasp. They get so many presents from all the family we have that it just isn't really necessary, so we get stocking stuffers and maybe a little something, but not big stuff. This year we did though, we kind of had to. Isabella has wanted a camera for a long time now and somehow she was sure she was getting it for Christmas, so we decided to get it for her, then we had to get everybody stuff, and it just went from there.

Everyone got new slippers, Even Papa. Every year I say I'm not going to get them slippers cause they never wear them, but every year I do it anyway. This year I had good reasoning though, these are slip on, and real soled, so when we get up at the crack of dawn to take Faron to work, these are easier to put on in half awakeness than shoes are, and they are nice and warm. So far, they have been worn, so perhaps my theory will work!
Customary new PJ's for Christmas
Ari's only present (and boy was she offended about that too, she kept going over to everybody else's presents and yelling at them and trying to take them away!)

Alexander got all "Cars"ed out this year. The topper was this big Lightning toy. He was a happy boy!
Sophia has been asking for a sword for EVER! I keep telling her I just don't think it is a good idea. All the swords I see are little hard plastic swords, and you could still really hurt somebody with those if you tried. But then I found this foam one, and oh boy was she happy about it!
Isabella's new digital camera. She was concerned over 2 factors, which made her have this face.
1. why is it orange and not the pink one she had been asking for?
2. who are these people and why is there picture on my camera?
When I told her that this camera had more features than the pink one so we went with it she was ok with that decision, and the picture of these other people came out once the box was open, so that problem was also solved. She now is a master of that camera and can use all the aforementioned features, and loves taking her pictures and movies.

Sophia's "big" present was a mini trampoline, it has gotten quite a work out these last couple days!


It was a lovely Christmas Eve, and Christmas is still to come!