Christmas Blessings

This Christmas was truly a joy. It was so much fun this year watching the kids enjoy opening their gifts, putting milk and cookies out for Santa, waking up to their Santa gifts, and being joyful to give to others. But I must say my favorite part of Christmas this year was when Natalia told Maddie and Alexander about Jesus' birthday and the party they had for him at school. Even after the excitement of all the goodies of Christmas, she still remembered it was his birthday.
We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was a bit different than past Christmases. We usually have a bunch of people here for brunch and dinner and its a busy crazy day. This year was a bit different. We opened gifts the night before since we had people coming in the morning. We spent the morning with Johns family and my parents. It was a nice quite morning and time well spent. We had a very lazy rest of the day with everyone playing with all their new goodies. Natalia was consumed with her Camera and "computer", Alexander riding his "harley" and cat tractor, John Dangerous Hunting and flying his helicopter, Tiffany wine tasting, Nanna staying warm with her new gloves and blasting music from her new brookstone speakers (those things are LOUD!) and papa busily looking online for the best deal on a generator for the motor home. We ended our wonderful Christmas day with an amazing ham dinner! Happy Birthday Jesus! Thanks for giving us such a wonderful day!