Children are God's gift: Waiting for Gifts on Christmas Eve

This Christmas was different in so many ways! We were able to spend almost a week {Tuesday ~ Monday} at my parents house! Originally it was only going to be Thursday ~ Monday, but with the impending weather we decided to head out early! It was a GOOD thing we did! Most of the state was DUMPED on and if we would have waited to leave until Thursday we wouldn't have been going anywhere! Another different part of this year was that my brother and his wife who actually only live 15 miles away, stayed at my parents house for a couple of night (due to same storm) and so we were all snowed it together. We played games, laughed, and laughed some more! It was great!

But probably the most different part of the year was that we didn't go to church on Christmas Eve like we normally do. Don't get me wrong, Christmas is all about the celebration of Christ's birth...but there was something amazing about being able to reflect on The Savior in our own special way instead of being in church around many people that you do not know and listening to a Pastors view of Christmas. It was nice, it was also nice to not have the hustle and bustle of getting 8 people ready for the service to which there is usually lots of bumping into each other because we are LATE! Service start at 5:30 right mom?!?!? hehee

Since we couldn't safely make it to and from church that night we decided to stay put. There was some snowmobiling going on, but we bumped supper up to a nice time so as to be able to not have such a late night for Princess and Boo! (The adults stayed up WAAAAYYYY later than normal!)

Okay, Okay...enough with the babbling...one with the Pictures. Today will only be the WAITING to open gifts...Friday will be the actual gift opening fun!