CHRISTMAS

Tonight is Christmas night and it has been the best Christmas with my kids.   These past few weeks have been filled with excitement and disappointment.  Disappointment with the fact that an ice storm hit and ruined my 40 BIRTHDAY celebration.  And when I say ruined, I mean ruined.  Mom and I shopped and shopped to make my house beautiful and Ryan worked hard to make it beautiful and wonderful. Casey was going to fly in from Californian and all.  But it was not meant to be.

So, after suffering though all that who knew what Christmas would bring?  Well, the week leading up to it was great.  They were filled with parties at school with the kids and fun.  I took the kids to see FROZEN the day the kids got out of school. It was a cute movie and we had fun.

Then, we got all the presents wrapped and ready for Christmas.  We were all ready for some fun.  Then, we woke up Christmas Eve morning and I made snowman pancakes.  We make iced sugar cookies for Santa and we make food for the reindeer.  That evening the kids were in the pageant at church.  We had a shepherd and two kings.  They did a great job and were the most handsome in the show.

We went to gigi and papa's house and ate dinner and the boys opened early presents and had a great time.  My parents even employed the "What's it?" game with my kids that Grandma Grammer played with them when they were young.  And you know what? They did great on guessing the what's it.

We finished dinner and then decided it was time to go home so we hit some great neighborhoods with lights before we hit home.

This morning the boys knew Santa had been there.  Presents galore!!!

Everyone was so happy and sweet and thankful.

My parents came for presents and dinner later in the day and we were so happy.


We are beyond grateful and happy and thankful for our blessings.

Merry Christmas to al!! And sweet blessings in your life!