I'll let the pictures do the talking tonight. We had an amazing Christmas break, filled with delicious food, thoughtful and generous gifts, laughter, fun (with lots of chaos in between, of course), and LOVE! Very thankful for another Christmas spent with our wonderful families. Everyone made it so special and memorable for our kids (and us, too)! We are very blessed.
Christmas Eve:
We had fun making cookies for Santa and his crew. We made peanut butter cookies with Reese cups in the middle. Very simple and fun for the kids.
About this, I will say for the record and for documentation... I take the kids to church most Sundays. However, the girls are always in the nursery. Jack comes with me often, so he is used to it. We got everyone ready to go to Christmas Eve mass at 6pm. We got there about 40 minutes early, as the children's mass fills up fast, and we wanted to be able to sit. They colored, sat quietly, listened to the Christmas carols nicely for the entire time until mass began. Then, we made it about 20 minutes, max, before I looked at Colin and said, "Should we just leave?" :(:(:( The culprit way mostly Erin and a little bit of Grace. Jack was great, but like I said, he's used to church behavior. We shall try again next year!
Christmas Day:
Christmas in Indiana:
Wishing my blog readers a very happy new year!!!
