Perfect Christmas

The Sunday before Christmas we arrived home from our road trip. We had an amazing trip visiting family and attending Travis' wedding but then we were ready for a quiet Christmas at home.

We hung out at home doing simple festive activities.

 I finished making our snowman family.

 Festive dress up

Luke wore that Santa suit to help me deliver homemade goodies to friends on Tuesday evening.

 Christmas Eve we built a snowman. Superhero Snowman.

 

Christmas Eve we sang Christmas songs as a family, made a snowman, read the scripture of the birth of Christ and set up the nativity with our toy set and a magnet storyboard. We watched Home Alone.

Christmas Eve night the kids open a present. New pjs. Mom and dad got new pjs too. We read a lot of fun Christmas stories during that week leading up to Christmas morning.

Christmas morning

As soon as it was 6:30a Luke came out of his room ...ready for gift opening. Everyone came to mom and dad's room and we headed out to the living room together. Santa and our loved ones were very good to us this year. Awesome presents.

All in our family have been sick in the last week. We are trying to get better but it's taking a long time.

It was a white Christmas, just beautiful. It snowed a few days before Christmas. Then it snowed all day on Christmas.
 

The boys love bey blades they played at a friends' house. So they asked for some for Christmas.

 Opening gifts

 Stitch and WallE !

 Athena got Snow White and the 7 dwarfs which fit perfectly in the new doll house I got her from D.I. for $1

 Athena's end result of amazing gifts...

Sterling's loot...
M&M blanket, screw drivers, M&M mug, Lego Movie Tshirt, a track suit , a collectable spoon from Tennessee where Abigail is serving her mission. And the movies are to the whole family.

 I got new long, warm pjs, a book to help me learn to make new cake toppers from fondant, Austenland Blueray, hot chocolate and a few things coming soon in the mail from Sterling...Downton Abby season 5 and a $50 gift card to Hobby Lobby!

 Luke got lots of cool stuff. The gifts the boys got to share are a new bed set, puzzles and bey blades.

 Ty's loot.

 We also got games, calendar and more puzzles.

 And books. We got lots of books this year! And we love to read.

 The boys rotate who sleeps on which bed so it doesn't matter where the bed set is. It's awesome!

 

But of course it's not the gifts that matter. We love the time we spend together. Decorating, singing, reading, playing games, remembering the story of the Savior's birth, playing in the snow, drinking hot chocolate, watching movies together, and more.