Christmas Eve at Opa and Oma's house. Visit Opa's blog for a short video clip. We all had a great time and felt the spirit of the season.
Christmas morning breakfast. We always have English Christmas Crackers and wear the crowns inside them. We had a wonderful day together. The highlight, of course was being all together with Johnny home. Christmas morning before we opened gifts, I asked the children to think of what kinds of gifts Jesus would want from us. We are grateful for this time of year when we celebrate our Savior's birth and life.Some of our homemade gifts to each other were as follows:
Caroline to Josh--cookie of the month club. She gave him a paper listing the different cookies she will bake him each month.
Josh to Natalie--He set her up on a double date. They went out last night and Johnny joined them for a triple date--his first date in 2 years. :)
Joe to Johnny--tied a fleece blanket for him
Jake to Joe--made a Lego kit. He created a model and then took pictures for Joseph to follow to reassemble it.
Natalie to Caroline--made some music mix CDs.
Johnny to Jake--gave him a little Greek hand toy and taught him tricks
2 comments:
It was so fun to see you guys on Christmas Eve! That was a great night!
I love your home-made gift tradition - we may need to start that soon. I'm sure your kids are all so proud of the stuff they make.
I liked hearing about your gift exchange. Where did you get those popping crackers? I looked and couldn't find any this year.
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