Wednesday, December 26, 2012

A Very Merry Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year and feel blessed that we were able to spend the holidays with our friends and families.

Annual Christmas party at Aubrey's parent's house. 
Celebrating Christmas at Grandpa Doug's house with Matt and Brooke.



This year we were asked to light the advent candles at church for the family Christmas Eve service.  During the service, the children were asked to come on stage to help ring the bells while the congregation sang.  Kayla and Kyler both enjoyed ringing the bells!  Our families joined us for the service and then headed to our house for dinner.  We had a nice evening spending time with family and continuing our fun Christmas Eve traditions.
Our Christmas cuties!






Tracking Santa!
 He is getting close!  Time to go out and search for Santa and his reindeer...
Throwing out reindeer food in the yard.
Grandma Jean reading, "Twas the Night Before Christmas".
 Setting out cookies and milk for Santa. 
Christmas morning the kids gathered up their stuffies and ran downstairs to see if Santa made a stop at our house...
He did!
Merry Christmas!
After opening up presents at home, we went over to Grandma Jean and Grandpa Ed's house and what do you know, Santa came to their house, too!
My favorite gift that Kayla received.  Two books filled with fun activities and interviews especially for mommy and daddy.  We started working on our book as soon as we finished opening up presents.  Love it!