Merry Christmas!!!!!

I know this is a little late, but we hope you all had a good Christmas. We had a very relaxing Christmas. Christmas Eve we had a friend over and her kids and Jeremy's parents for dinner, Santa then door bell ditched a game for the kids. So we played games and then the kids begged to go to bed. So they opened the new jammies Grandma and Grandpa from California gave them and went to bed without a peep. (I think that was the best Christmas present I got :) )

Christmas morning was a blast the kids were so cute and exctied. We took our time opening gifts, They each got a new robe, slippers and new outfit. Hadley got lincoln logs, Bradley a ball popper and Madelyn a little doll house. I thought we had downsized Christmas but our house sure looked like they had gotten a million things. We stayed in our jammies all day and played games, watched movies, ate and played with the new Christmas toys. It was so fun and relaxing.

For the few weeks before Christmas we have been talking about why we celebarte Christmas and why we give gifts and that it does not matter how many we get or what we get but we are given gifts because people love us. After all the presents were open Hadley said,"I didn't get everything I wanted but I am still happy and like all that I got". That made my day right there the fact that he is starting to understand that Christmas is not about what you did or did not get.

Our Christmas tree is in front of our Front door because that is the only place we had room for it.
we hung a sign on the front door that said "Santa's work shop closed. Please vist Mrs. Claus's kitchen" with and arrow pointing to the side door. Got to love small houses!
The pictures of the kids in costumes were of us doing the nativity. Bradley was the wandering cow. Hadley loved dressing up and doing it. Madelyn felt important since she did not get to the ward one becasue she was to little.