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Getting Ready and Enjoying Christmas

Unlike every other normal day of the year, on Christmas Day I actually did NOT take a lot of pictures.  The reason for this can be summed up in one word: CHAOS.  I don't know what your day was like but ours including an injured person (me), 6 hyper kids (you don't need me to name them, do you?), TONS of gifts, a sick person (mom), and lots of hungry people who were waiting on lunch!  LOL - does that sound like fun or what?  Seriously, it was one of the most exciting, fun, chaotic days of the year!  We had a great day.  But, in saying all of that, there was NOT a lot of time to take pictures!


So, I'm including the few we got, and most of these are actually of us preparing for Christmas.  We had a baking day, where we baked cookies for all of our teachers/friends at church, then the kids had a Christmas party with a lot of their friends, and then we actually celebrated the day!  The only pictures I have here are pictures of Andrew and Jacob enjoying Andrew's new Power Wheels jeep.  (Yes, there will be many fights over who gets to drive!)

Enjoy these; I have some videos coming soon.




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Christmas!

Our family has  a lot of Christmas traditions.  One of them involves a "progress decorating".  Each weekend we spend at a different family member's house, usually decorating the Christmas tree.  This also involves an advent-type re-telling of the Christmas story.  The kids usually dress up and act out their parts in the Christmas story.  This year, we recorded each of the three plays, and I compiled them together in a video.  I'm working on getting that uploaded so everyone can see it.  In the meantime, here are some pictures of us decorating at Sandy & Katie's house: