Christmas Day

I just realized I never published this post I did on Christmas Day. Oops!

LOVE these pictures of the boys playing with their new toys, waiting for breakfast.

 Not-so-patiently waiting for Jason to read the Christmas story.

 Singing the Christmas story song (from the Toddler Rhyming Bible) with some dancing goin' on!

 My one attempt at a picture of all four of them.

 Claire loving her Barbie gift. Meanwhile, Zoe is using her box for a drum.

And the boys LOVE the fishing game our friends, the Wulfekuhles, gave the kids. Allie made it and it is such a wonderful gift!

 Someone needed a snack.

I bought a big turkey for our Christmas lunch. Zoe thought it was too small at the store, even though she could barely carry it to the car. Claire was still talking and laughing about that at lunch!

 Zoe got a big drumstick. We had sweet potato rolls to go with it.

The girls had been asking to have ice cream on Christmas for many days so we went for it. A dear friend (thanks Cindy!) actually brought us a bunch of groceries on Friday, including ice cream and ice cream cones. The kids LOVED it. We also let them have some of the cookies we made (and have yet to frost, even though I have the frosting made...oh well!) and of course, Fanta!

The boys - especially Isaiah - loved the new playdough toys we gave them.

It was a great Christmas day at home with just our family. The girls took baths and got dressed earlier than they ever have since they've been home. Meanwhile the boys and I stayed in p-pops all day long! After snack time, the girls and I watched Mary Poppins. I must admit it was my first time ever watching that movie, too. :) By the end, the girls were dancing all around. Jason said (like we often find ourselves saying), "they never got to do that." The joy to get to see them do things they have never gotten to do is pretty amazing.

God has been so good to us! We are so thankful He sent His Son to be born in a lowly stable more than 2,000 years ago to rescue us from our sins.