Christmas at Grandma's

We love spending time with family at Christmas. There is something especially wonderful about gathering together, visiting, sharing, giving gifts, and playing games. Children run around with cousins and squeals of laughter. We watch movies and eat goodies. We talk and laugh and take naps. I know that my children will treasure these memories.

Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Kelly's house this year.

Daryl was the gift passer-outer. The children wait in anticipation.

The treasured gifts of the year were blankets that Grandma made for each grandchild! They love them! What warm love to wrap up in!

Christmas Day

Christmas is just so magical. I love to see the expressions on each of my children's faces as they open gifts carefully chosen by a brother or sister, and as the one giving the gift is filled with almost more excitement than the one opening!

We don't always have church on Christmas. Our Christmas worship service is always on Sunday. So this year was one of those Christmases that landed on Sunday. It is a good reminder for us to pull away from Santa and presents----and remember just why we are celebrating this special day. So we had the best of both this year. It is a good thing.

Christmas Eve

We love Christmas and all of the fun it brings. We love visiting with friends and family. We love celebrating and singing. We love being together!

Visiting our dear friends---Bob and "Grandma" Laurel

Opening Christmas pajamas from Grandma and Grandpa Lee

A Visit with Santa

The whole time that Miriam stood in line to sit on Santa's lap, she was quietly singing, "You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout"...............can you tell in this picture that she is trying SOOOOOOOOO hard to not be scared of Santa and cry. She did a great job!