Christmas 2007

This year's Christmas was different in so many ways, good and bad. The good was that we had Rob's parents here with us Christmas morning and we got to celebrate it in our new home. The bad was that my parents weren't here Christmas morning, but they were visiting with my brother and came to see us a few days later.

The boys put out cookies and milk for Santa and some celery for the reindeer. We also spread special reindeer stuff in our yard to make sure they could find our new house. (basically it was oatmeal to lure the reindeer and glitter so the moon would light up our front yard and they could find their way!) So the boys spread that all over the grass in the front yard.

Chance was the first one awake and he decided to slice right into one of Grandma's presents. Then he came running back upstairs to wake us up. He was nodding and smiling! It was hilarious. I said "Did Santa come?" and he just started jumping and hooting. A few minutes later, Cannon and Colin came in and we went downstairs. But mean ol mommy wouldn't let them open any presents until Grandma and Granddad came down too. So they had to sit there and look at those presents for nearly a half an hour! ha ha ha... true torture I tell you. I wanted them to be able to share the fun of Christmas with Grandma and Granddad. So I'm glad we waited.

Santa brought all sorts of cool Spiderman stuff. Colin just enjoyed opening presents, he didn't really care what was in it, except for the Lucky Duck game. That was a HUGE hit. He walks around the house now going "Quack Quack??!!" Like, "where is my duck game?" It's too cute. And Chance got lots and lots of clothes to wear to school. His biggest present came today (1/4/08), his new AmTryke.

It's amazing how quickly Christmas morning goes by and how much preparation goes into it!



















We did celebrate the birth of Jesus by attending candlelight services at church. As usual, it was beautiful. We kept Chance with us for service and sent the two younger ones to their classrooms. Chance did GREAT in church. The week before Cannon sang in the church Christmas musical and did excellent. Check out the adorable video!