Christmas

This Christmas was wonderful and hard at the same time.  Mark and I had decided last Christmas that we were going to spend this Christmas just together as our little family.  We wanted to start setting our own traditions and we just felt like it was a time we should spend together just us.  We were so excited.  Really.  We had been talking about it for months how we were so excited to just stay in Denver and not have to worry about traveling and just enjoy the time together.  Throw in an unexpected move and it put a lot of stress on things. 

Everything just felt so rushed about Christmas and I didn't get to quite do everything the way that I wanted to.  But I guess we have a lot of Christmas' in the future to get it right! 

Christmas Eve we made sugar cookies for Santa and got a "Special Delivery" from the big man in red with some new pajamas and a new Christmas book, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  Jacob was convinced that all of the reindeer were sheep!  And the kiddos just looked way too cute with their matching pajamas!  We read the Christmas story and put the kiddos to sleep and then Mark and I finished the night with some egg nog. 

Christmas morning we woke up and had some homemade cinnamon rolls and orange juice and then opened presents.  It is fun to see Jacob understand more and more about Christmas.  Our family was so generous to us and we are very grateful.  Jacob loved opening all of the presents and we only had to remind him a couple of times about having to "take turns." ;)

We spent the day in our jammies playing and just enjoying our time together as a family.  My family came over in the late afternoon and it was fun to spend some time with them also.

As always though, the best part was being able to reflect on the best gift we've been given from our Father in Heaven, our Savior, Jesus Christ.  He is the reason for the season.