Monday, December 28, 2009

grateful

What a great Christmas!! There was a chance that it could have been a train wreck, but because the Lord is faithful it ended up being one of the best Christmas' yet!

We had Christmas w/ Doug and Vicky a couple weeks early cause they had so many to do! It was a blast and Max's skateboard was the hit of the party. The weather was beautiful so we all went outside to play football and let Ally push Ben on his new Mickey Airplane.

Then on Christmas Eve it snowed ALL day! It was absolutely beautiful! Max helped me make cupcakes for Jesus' Bday Party (Noah got a stomach bug so he didn't help =( ) and it was hilarious watching Ben suck the frosting off them. Jeff actually helped me finish up the Santa duties as soon as the kids were passed out and Christmas morning was wonderful. By about the third gift Ben finally had the whole 'tearing off the wrapping' figured out. Noah loved his Civil War Battlefield Map and Max had his nerf gun put together before we were even finished opening presents.

Then we headed over to my mom's where we ate a HUGE breakfast and opened gifts. Jonnie and Heather got to come over for a little visit which the boys were happy about. They love Uncle Jonnie.

And the Christmas' aren't over yet! Jeff got the stomach bug that night so we had to postpone Oma's Christmas till the 9th. Can't wait!

This year was great because since money was extremely tight it wasn't about gifts. We were forced to rely on our faith to even get any gifts to begin w/ (another post to come about that miracle) and it became more about how grateful we are for our family than gifts. How if it weren't for our irritating siblings and critical mothers we wouldn't have anything. God is so good. He gave us to our parents and he gave our children to us but they're only loaners! They won't be with us forever so it's crucial to enjoy every minute and squeeze every ounce of love out for the ones we hold dear.

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