We had a wonderful Christmas this past December! Something about this Christmas seemed calmer than year’s past (and, I think it helped that I was able to sneak off to the 11pm service at church with a friend!) Having the boys be at an age where they had more of an understanding of what was going on was so much fun. We made ornaments for most of our family, and the boys LOVED making them, decorating the bags they went in, and handing them out. It was great! We also did a little Advent devotional this year called the Jesse tree, so we read short stories from the Bible that led up to Jesus’ coming. The boys still talk about the different stories! And, as everyone knows, three year olds are very into birthdays. So, we decided to make some birthday muffins to celebrate Jesus’ birthday. There was confusion about whether Jesus would be joining us to eat the muffins and how He would come, if He did come to eat, but all in all, I think they understood we were celebrating something great: the birth of our King!
We had a banana muffin baking party on Christmas Eve Eve . . .
Why not put measuring cups on your head? (I should issue a disclaimer that anything from my kitchen is eat at your own risk)
We went to church on Christmas Eve for a lively and wonderful children’s service. Then we had dinner and did gifts with the Murphy family at Sugie and Bumpa’s house. It was so much fun! Uncle Christopher was in town and carried on our Paps’ “Santa Box” tradition . . . which is a rowdy and hilarious Christmas grab-bag, of sorts. I think Hudson may have been a teensy bit excited about it. What do you think?
One of my favorite quotes from that night was William turning to Hatch at my mom’s and pointing to the shrimp cocktail and asking “Daddy, may I eat one of those wormies?” AH HA! I love it!
This picture is so sweet!
I wanted to make something very small for each of our kids this year, and seeing that I am a consistently wonderful procrastinator, I may have been sewing the days leading up to Christmas. But, it was fun, and I loved being able to do that for my little ones. (And, a note here about our stockings: They are from PB kids. My Nana painstakingly hand-knitted us all stockings—even Anna!—which hang in a row at my mom’s house. They are amazing. SO AMAZING, but in the spirit of Christmas, I have relinquished them to hang nicely in the row at Sugie’s house. )
These next pictures are hilarious to me. William had mentioned that he would like an excavator for Christmas . . . (yes, this is a steam roller)
Hudson had mentioned thinking that a steam roller would be neat. (Yes, this is an excavator!)
We had a great time enjoying them opening their stockings, which were packed with felt food . . . apples . . .
peanuts . . .
. . . potatoes
I love this one!
And, nothing beats eating a waffle on your way out the door on Christmas morning!
We headed to Sugie’s for our Christmas morning celebration! Isn’t our Birthday muffin display (with massive candle) hilarious?
And, once again, the gift giving was such fun. Sugie and Bumpa had given this grill set to CHARLIE.
And, they’d given this train set to WILLIAM AND HUDSON. We were laughing so hard, because the boys could not have been less interested in their own gifts!
I somehow managed to make it through Christmas without a SINGLE group picture . . . none of my three children, none of us with my parents or my grandparents, or our cousins . . . I am not sure what happened. I feel sad about it. Let’s not do that again next year! But, I did snag this sweet shot of Bumpa with his only granddaughter!
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