The quiet peace before everyone is up and the craziness begins! The children are at awesome ages this year so it was so fun to watch them. Taylor did discover a few things this year and so in a quiet moment he took the time to personally thank Mom and Dad for ALL he got, even his Santa gifts.
The kids woke up around 6am, I tossed and turned from 430 on waiting for them. Emma was the first one up and was soo excited. We did stockings first and after we had gone through everything; Liv was very distraught. She said, "Santa was supposed to bring me a Dora Doll!" and then ran to her room. All our Santa gifts were wrapped so she didn't know she did have a dora doll, we let her open it next and she was very excited.
Madelyn was thrilled to see Santa was able to make her a Baby Alive Doll, Emma was surprised with her own Fashion Design Kit, and Taylor was surprised with new bedding and then later paint from Dad and Mom to redo his room. In addition, Taylor got the Nerf shield and Knife he asked for and Emma got the bedding she asked for. We will be painting soon, that will help keep the winter blues away for me. I recieved many wonderful gifts from Santa and Joseph and the kids. The highlights for me were the wonderful handmade gifts from my kids and then a beautiful new Wool Coat. Joseph got some new shoes, clothes, the hunger games books, and a framed picture of Christ with his Line of Authority on it. I am not sure what he highlight was but I know he loves to see us all happy. He goes to great lengths to make that happen and was very sweet and didn't complain once about all the charges on the bank statement from my shopping!!
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We were all excited to add an hour of church to our Christmas celebration to help us remember our Savior!! The spirit was so strong in our meeting through the musical numbers. I know that Jesus Christ was born and is the Savior of the World and I am so grateful for the sacrifice he made so we can all repent and have peace and joy!! I know my Savior Lives!!
The elders spent the day with us and we had a lot of fun with them. We played games
The kids all got new dressy coats but Liv was pictured out so we didn't really get a great picture with them. We had a couple families over for a Christmas dinner and party. Then after everyone left we enjoyed opening our gifts from Grandpa and Grandma Katschke.(pics to come in next post) It was a wonderful Christmas day!!
2 comments:
So fun! Sounds like we did similar things on Christmas! Your kids are so cute.
I an just catching up on the blogs. Thanks for posting so many fun things. These are the times I miss you all so much. But I am happy you are all happy where you are. You do support us all the time. We know that you are there and would drop everything to be here. Life is good.
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