This was a tight year for us in the Christmas department. We had no idea what we were going to do for the kids. But as you can see from the picture there many blessings poured out upon us. Our "Santa's" included our ward, Dan's squadron and a family Dan met while giving plasma, who wanted to help our family out this year. We were incredibly touched and amazed at the tender kindness of so many and the wonderful gifts our kids received this year. Here is our Christmas eve picture.
Our Christmas day was spread out a bit. But we did let the kids open a few gifts before we had to get ready for church. EmmaLynn was thrilled with her new umbrella, princess chair and rain boots. Ezyas was on the bike immediately!
They also got to dig into the stockings of course!
They had a few more gifts we let them open before church.
Here are a few of sweet EmmaLynn opening her gifts. She
was in love with the Tinkerbell dress up as soon as she laid eyes on it.
She didn't want to take it off!
Ezyas was having a hard time opening all the gifts. All he wanted to do after he opened the first one was to play with it. When we wouldn't let him we had to try everything we could to get him to open all the other gifts quickly.
Dan opened his gifts when everything was all finished with the kids.
Don't you love my wrapping job on the left. It was the last thing I
needed to wrap and this was the last of all the wrapping paper we had. I
made it work! haha!
We truly had an amazing Christmas and we
enjoyed dinner with our awesome friends Cameron and Nicole McFadden and
Justin and Jolynn Hatch! It's great to have amazing friends when your
Family is so far away!
