I think these stockings are one of my favorite Christmas decorations. It made me happy to add the 5th one to our mantle this year for little Evy. (I am really not super good at crocheting, but I am rather proud of these stockings I made for our kids! It's about the only thing I've made that I feel I can brag about...)
We had a fun Christmas Week. We had a fun talent show and party with the Stouts a few days before Christmas, then Alan and I sang in our annual production of Handel's Messiah, and then we had a fun Christmas Eve party with my side of the family. Christmas Eve night Jared and Maggie participated in the live Nativity with some of their cousins. We tracked where Santa was on the internet and then left him milk and cookies before bed. It was all wonderful.
This video is a glimpse of the first few minutes of Christmas morning in our home as the kids see their presents from Santa. We were actually able to let Maggie sleep in til almost 8 am. Jared woke up around 7:30 but quietly played Angry Birds Star Wars, a free app of the day for our Kindle, while we let her sleep.
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| Fairy wings for our little fairy. She also got a crown and wand. |
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| A robot was a last-minute request from Jared a couple of week before Christmas. Unfortunately, Santa couldn't bring a really nice one because he had maxed out already on his budget. So Santa brought this cheaper one that unfortunately had a burnt-out motor when we put it together. Luckily, I told Jared that I could order a replacement from the store. We are happy to say that the replacement works great and Jared loves it! He named it Spritey. |
Jared was sooooooooooo excited for us to open his present that he brought home from school. It had four ornaments that he had made! I love adding these special ornaments to our tree each year!
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| Jared got a fancy remote-controlled car from Grandma Curtis. He loves to play with it at our church while Alan plays with his new remote-controlled helicopter (Thanks, Mandy!) |
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| New movies! |
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| Evelyn participated in our Christmas morning, too. She mostly tried to eat all of the wrapping paper... |
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| New Tinker Bell dress! |
I forgot to take any pictures of the rest of our Christmas. We had a wonderful time with Alan's family and got to talk to Mason on his mission in Mexico. We opened some wonderful presents from Alan's parents. Then we had a delicious ham dinner at my mom's house in the evening. It was a perfect day.
1 comment:
I am totally impressed by your stockings! I crochet but I don't think I could do that. They look so awesome! It looks like you all had a fun Christmas!
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