Some pre-Christmas pictures of tree decorating. It's always so much fun to go through the ornaments. The girls really like finding their own and remembering the stories of why they got that particular ornament. Aaron really had fun hanging ornaments this year. Caleb really enjoyed un-hanging ornaments ; )
I had the boys birthday balloons reinflated for Christmas. They both are just crazy about balloons and these were a huge hit on their birthday, so I saved them. They enjoyed them just as much the second time around.
On Christmas morning the kids can't come down until they hear the "Hallelujah" chorus, another tradition. We usually do stockings first, which they love.
Christmas breakfast is always a sausage casserole and cinnamon rolls. We put candles in the rolls for the birthday baby. And no surprise that Aaron took great delight in blowing them out.
Just some random pics of opening gifts. This was Caleb's first year really being able to open the presents, he found it to be quite fun, and of course the paper and bows were way more exciting than the gifts.
Gotta love a girl who gets a book and just has to read it right then.
Caleb discovered chocolate this Christmas, it was inevitable, given that he lives with several chocolate lovers. Once he discovered what was underneath that shiny wrapping he was quite intent on eating all he could find. We had to hid them, because we found him searching everyone's stockings once he had rapidly depleted his own.
A great action shot!
We had a fun and relaxing day. This year I didn't cook, usually we've had soup and fresh bread. But this time we used one of our New Year traditions of having snacks and hor d'ourves for the day. No cooking for me, we just grazed.
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