Christmas/bday dinner

We were invited to celebrate Wesley and Jared's birthday/Christmas dinner at Ms Jan and Gpa Lowe's house. What a delight it is to have family nearby! Ms Jan made a lovely turkey dinner spread with all the fixings, and of course soda, which the boys loved!  We later opened Christmas presents; animal blankets, jackets, and robes. We celebrated Jared's birthday with his favorite breakfast; hashbrowns, fried eggs, bacon, fruit smoothie and biscuits. Homemade cards were included (my favorite was Wesleys' cartoon drawing of a muscle man with Jared's photo of his head on the top). Happy 34th dadeeee!

Christmas

The big day was almost here! Lots of gift wrapping (some done while in Utah), guessing on what gifts could be under the tree, cinnamon rolls prepped the night before, and an intense game of Monopoly with Grandma Wilson! We spent Christmas Eve being spiritually fed with some nice videos on the Savior, as well as reading from the bible of His birth. We read some Christmas books and it was really nice.
Christmas morning we have a tradition of reading the "gifts" we have done for Jesus throughout the month and then putting those acts of service inside the gift box. Since we had Gma and Pipa Wilson with us, we invited them to participate as well. I think the boys recognize that Christmas is more about the Savior vs. gifts and they were happy to do that too.
One by one we opened up the gifts and tried to take our time so that the boys would recognize and enjoy the moments. I don't even remember most of the gifts given or received; a few basketballs, pocket knives, a bracelet loom, candies, some slippers and perfume. Every year the magic comes and goes so quickly, but hopefully our boys felt Christ's love in our home and special in our hearts.