Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas.  I love seeing the excitement on my children's faces when they run into the room to see all of their treasures and opening their presents.  It truly is a magical.  Leading up to Christmas this year we focused a lot on the true meaning of Christmas.  We focused on each person in the nativity story and read about them and what their role was and what we could learn from them.  We had some wonderful spiritual discussions around the lights of the Christmas tree (some nights were better than others, especially the nights that the 2 youngest fell asleep early).  I love hearing the insight of my children and hearing what the think and feel. 

We all loved the karaoke machine Alli got from Santa.

Livy loved riding her bike with her new baby doll in the basket and talking on her new phone.

Jonathan setting up his army guys.

We had quite a few bey blade battles on Christmas day with his new stadium.  It was fun for the whole family.

As I have shared before Alli loves to play school and so it was no surprise when she asked for school supplies for Christmas.  This is what her wall now looks like after the hung up all of the posters she got.  She was in heaven.  I gave her a whole box full of stuff and you should have seen how excited she was when she opened it.  I have never seen anyone get so excited to get a stapler.  It was so cute!  I love my little teacher.

Nicholas was so excited in the beginning but as the morning continued he got more grumpy.  He was not that interested in his gifts, he wanted everyone else's presents, especially Jonathan's which of course didn't go over very well.  

Look at that cute snotty nosed boy.  Love that face!