Been Awhile

Wow, I hadn't realized that it has been so long since we posted anything! I guess the business of the days leading up to Christmas got the better of us. That last week was pretty exhausting! I have not been online very much and missed reading all of the posts on my favorite blogs. I hope all my friends out there in blog world had a great holiday!

Well, Christmas at our house was chaotic, of course. There is no way around that with 4 small children! It was a wonderful couple of days of celebration, though. The husband ended up with an extra day off work because of an injury I suffered to my knee (there's a whole blog entry to that story!) so, we had him home for a 4 day weekend. That was nice, even with the painful knee!
Christmas Eve service at our church was fantastic. It was a bummer for the husband who missed much of it when he had to take the screaming boy out to the lobby. The older two kiddos really enjoyed the music and the story. It was funny that they didn't recognize Gram's voice as the cow. Everyone involved with the whole production did a wonderful job, we thank you. It was a great service, especially for the children.
The tradition in my husband's family is to open stockings in the evening on Christmas Eve so, we all got together at the Gram and Pappy's house after they were finished with their work at church; with the addition of one very dear friend. I do believe there was a great time had by all. We have a simple dinner with appetizer type foods that we can all "graze" on throughout the evening and, as usual, Gram had some very yummy things for us all to eat. It was so fun watching the kiddos. They ended up opening their stockings after all the adults and they were so excited about watching each one of open our little presents. They were so excited, it was as if they were getting the gifts themselves. Those kiddos are way too much fun! The Gram and Pappy put together some pretty fun stockings for us all. Thanks much. :)
After the Gram and Pappy's house we headed home to do our stockings at our house as the husband couldn't stand to wait until the morning. The kiddos were just as enthusiastic at home even though it was getting insanely late. My favorite comment of the evening was when Maverick opened a little bug magnifier container on a necklace, he said "Hey! I got a girl thing! Why did you get me a girl thing?!" Yes, because when one thinks of playing with bugs they always think of girls. Silly boy! After the opening of stocking gifts at our house the kiddos finally headed to bed. It was midnight, and I hadn't even opened mine yet! I waited for them to go to bed. The hubby and Miss Chris did an excellent job putting together a stocking for me, as usual.
Some pretty fun and useful stuff, thanks guys.
Christmas morning. The kiddos slept in until 10:30 or so. THANK YOU! We opened presents at home and then headed over to the Gram and Pappy's house. We got there much later than planned due to the sleepy little children and those two were very ready to get to the gift giving. :) It is so much fun to watch those kiddos open their gifts and get so excited about what they were given. Mr Maverick was a hoot when he opened "Mine very own scooter!" You should have seen the look on his face. And Sir Kannon with all his books, he was in heaven. Miss Teya loved her pretty little purse and has been carrying it around all day. :) Baby Faith was content to sit with Mommy and doze through the festivities. I can't even begin to describe what a wonderful gift the new computer monitor was for the hubby and me ! WOW! Love it! Thanks a million!
Gram made a wonderful ham dinner for us. I think that is always my favorite part of the day. Sitting down to eat together. There is always delicious food at Gram's house and it's so nice to have that time to just be together and talk and laugh.

So, Christmas and Christmas Eve were very fun days for this little family. We all enjoyed our time together and had so much fun giving out the gifts we had for each other. We also did not forget the reason for the celebration and were so thankful for the birth of our Savior.

I hope those of you out there in the world had wonderful holidays too.