What a blessed weekend we all had together! Our family does every other year with our husband's family on the day of Christmas and this year was it. So we all agreed on the weekend before Christmas to celebrate. So Friday night we all stayed the night and the next morning woke up as if it was Christmas day! The night before we all got our kids to bed and then it was time to relax...Emily brought some white wine and Moscato de Asti and we got out some board games to play. I don't know how late we were all up but it was definitely late enough. After we were all done with the fun and games we filled the tree with gifts and got out our party supplies-after all we were celebrating a birthday! We blew up A LOT of green and red balloons and laid out some noise makers. The kids loved it all. We sang Happy Birthday to Jesus the next day at lunch time! Here are some pictures from our special couple of days (ok, not just some, A LOT!).
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Mom was up early and made us a butter braid and egg casserole. Mom's are the best! Not to mention the lunch we had later on!
Mom got a curio cabinet for one of her gifts from dad which created a lot of fun with the box. I really wanted to take the box home but there just isn't room anywhere for it. Adah just had so much fun climbing through it. She had plenty of room to sit up and hang out. I was even able to get in it with her!
A few gifts that I can remember for each of us are: I got a bunch of baking stuff and a couple of manger /Jim Shore ornaments to add to my collection, Brian got a box of cards (he got a card in that box that was worth more than the box itself) and a nice Hawks sweatshirt, all three kids got ornaments that had their names on them along with a gift that had their name on it-Kezzie a backpack, Adah a dolly, Austin a necklace. There were many many more awesome gifts from every one but I can't name them all!
Unfortunately, even though all of us stayed (except Emily and Adam's family) Austin had to leave for the night to go be with his dad around 4:00. We stayed until Sunday and went to church the next morning! What a great time we had! Thanks mom (and dad) for all the hard work you put into feeding and housing us all for the weekend!
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