Simply Blessed: What a wonderful Christmas

Well, now that Christmas has officially past I thought I would give you a quick glimpse into what went on around here. We hope you had as an enjoyable Christmas as we did.

Christmas Eve was spent at home with just the 5 of us. The kids were very patient all day (much more so that mommy - I just wanted a clean house.):) It didn't take long for the kids to have their gifts open and start enjoying them. Jaren got an electric race track & his first Bible, Bethany got an inflatable trampoline & a Boz the Bear movie & Erica got a teeter-totter & a Boz the Bear game. We enjoyed spending a quiet evening together as a family.

Christmas morning the kids opened their stockings from "Santa" and then it was off to church to celebrate the real meaning of Christmas...Jesus birth. After church we went to my parents for a wonderful prime rib & ham lunch, sledding for the dads & kids and of course more presents. My dad is always very creative when it comes to wrapping my mom's gifts and this year he didn't let us down. She got lots of nice gifts tucked away in old tool boxes all wrapped in sports wrapping paper. :) The kids got to call Jason & Kristin and sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" since they were at the hospital with their little girls. We ended the night with the kids watching a movie and the adults playing games once we got the men away from the pool table. It was a great day and lots of fun.

Yesterday we headed up to Des Moines to see Hailey & Brynn...ok so I saw them, everyone else settled for seeing Jason & Kristin. They are some of the cutest little girls I've ever seen and I can't wait to be able to hold them sometime soon. We also got to go see where Uncle Mark lives in Des Moines and do a little shopping.

Today is left for organizing and cleaning up the mess from the past few days. It is very icy outside today so staying home is a great plan.