some favorites of Christmas...

on the 23rd... put on our Christmas best and had a little photo shoot.  It happened to be a warm day... made from some great photos.  Also went to see Santa...

On the 24th Em helped make sugar cookies... she had a blast and made a huge mess.  But it kept her busy for some time!

Snow on Christmas Eve... this is a first for me.  Never in my life have I had a white Christmas.  And also a first for my kiddos.  Pretty special gift to get snow on Christmas Eve.

 We tried to go to the Christmas Eve service - got in the car and tried to drive and we could not get out of our neighborhood.  So we turned around and went home.  Had our traditional scavenger hunt for pajamas.  Then we had our own time together reading the Christmas Story from the Bible and our last candle in our Advent Wreath.

The calm before the storm... this is about 6:30 AM Christmas morning.  You can see the sun coming up over the houses in the back.  Danny will be home soon from work, the kids are awake (I can hear them) but they can not come down until Daddy gets home.  I'm sipping coffee...  Things are about to get real messy!

One quick photo before they begin!  Santa left a note with the trampoline... They were very excited to see he brought a trampline in a box... just like Emma told him to do!

Hudson asked for a bath robe.  Emma asked for a pillow pet... they both asked for a trampoline... Santa came through!  Happy kids... now Daddy has to put the trampoline together... after the snow melts! Spent the rest of the day at Grammy and Pop-pop's... Grammy made an incredible meal.  Pretty wonderful Christmas together...