Home Sweet Home: Christmas Day

It's time to speed things up-to-date since I am now officially one month past Christmas in posting this.  We had a beautiful, not-white, peaceful Christmas.  This year was my mother's turn for the holiday and we got lucky she lived in the same town.  Throughout the day, we opened presents, ate good food, opened more presents over FaceTime, ate more good food, and opened more presents.  We truly had a blessed Christmas and we are so grateful for our loved ones, near and far.  


I love technology, but not as much as you, you see.
 

A customary black trash bag filled with used wrapping paper always completes the picture.

Christmas morning can be exhausting.  First world problem.

A few days before Christmas, we took the boys shopping for one another at Target.  Gavin gifted Logan his very own Lego fire truck, while Logan gifted Gavin a Captain America transformer.  They could barely keep their secrets on the way home from the store!  The picture below is the big exchange Christmas morning.  They have so much love for one another as brothers and best friends.
 

The children's organization in our church (the Primary) gifted each child their very own wooden manger early in December.  Accompanied the manger was a bag of yellow yarn and a clothespin baby Jesus.  Every good deed the child did between then and Christmas, they were suppose to place one piece of yellow yarn in their manger.  The more good deeds, the more yellow yarn, the more comfortable baby Jesus will be Christmas Eve when we place him in the manger.  Amongst all the holiday bustle, this activity was a gentle reminder of the spirt of Christmas.  
 

Time to play with our toys!