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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas Day Bliss





MERRY CHRISTMAS from our family to yours! I hope you had a wonderful day! Our morning started bright and early at about 7am ... we told Angel she wasn't allowed to get up before then :-) LOL. The kids each got one gift from Santa - Angel asked for makeup (ugh), Lovebug asked for a "big choo-choo" and we got to decide for Sunshine this year :-) They had so much fun opening their gifts and Sunshine just dug right in and was happy to open anyone else's gift that would let her. She loved unwrapping!

It was a really wonderful morning that included my family, gift-giving and gift-receiving, lots of coffee, and scrumptious brunch food. Of course, we were all most delighted to watch the kids open their gifts - oh they had so much fun! It's so easy to remember what it was like as a kid on Christmas morning, and it's truly amazing to see it through their eyes as a parent.

Unfortunately these are the only pictures I have. Like I have said before, I'm more into experiencing than documenting when it comes to family events and celebrations like this. I'm thankful that DH shot the few that he did of the kids opening Santa's gifts (loved his long-legged knee in the bottom right of all the shots! LOL), because the only other ones that I shot were of Lovebug checking out the gift we were ALL excited to give him ... it came from Nana & Granddad (my parents) ... le piece de resistance ... a human-powered Go Kart. Ummmm, yeah he pretty much loved it. LOL. And we all loved seeing his face even more.

Traditionally, Lovebug has been very scared of any moving toys that make noise. He's been scared of them since he was very young. DH picked up a power wheels go cart for him a couple years ago, but Lovebug refused to ride it because he was so deathly scared of it. We have almost no toy trucks or cars in our house that make noise, although he is *slowly* coming around to the coolness factor of a lot of them. I mean, you have to outgrow a fear like that eventually, right?! So anyway, when my Dad saw a pedal Go Kart, he knew it was the perfect stepping stone for Lovebug to a real Go Kart (did I mention that we have decided Lovebug is going to be the next Jimmie Johnson? ... or Jeff Gordon if you ask my Dad ... or Kyle Busch if you ask DH. LOL.)

So in summary, it was a fantastic, absolutely terrific, wonderful, amazing, perfect day. Lots of family time and the kids? Well, they had so. much. fun. Now if we can just decide how to get more commercialism out of our Christmas celebration and more Jesus into it ... a post to come on that soon. Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy Birthday to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

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