A Blessed Christmas!!

Ours was great! It all started on Saturday with my mom and sister here. We opened gifts Sat. night b/c we (meaning Vicki & I) could not wait. Mainly b/c we had bought a special gift for our mom. On Sunday morning Mom and I tried to decorate cookies with Sam but she lost interest quickly, so Matt filled in and we made over 5 dozen cookies! (I still have 3 more batches to make at Matt's request!) Anyhow, on Sunday night, Matt and Sam went to the evening service at church and Daniel and I stayed home. After church, we all headed over to Barb & Nick's. We had Christmas and a great visit with them! On Monday we took our leisurely time getting up to start the day! There was no rush on opening gifts and both of the kids slept in until 8am! It's great to have kids who don't really understand the full concept of Christmas yet! After eating a wonderful pancake breakfast made by Matt and reading the Christmas story (based off of Christmas Eve's church program), we opened gifts. We started with Daniel since he's the youngest, and of course I was the last...being the oldest. It's good for my patience to have to be last every year! Sammie was funny b/c everything was Sammie's gift...even the underwear I bought for Matt! She's too cute! However, she wasn't too cute when she wouldn't take a nap that afternoon, but who can blame her...it's Christmas! Later, Matt made most of the dinner (I helped a little bit)...turkey, mashed pototoes, and a veggie. After dinner, we had birthday cake and sang Happy Birthday! Have you heard the "Happy Birthday Jesus" song? One of the children's choirs at church sang it and it was so beautiful! How was your Christmas? Did you go anywhere?