Christmas 2009

Christmas Eve we celebrated with our church. We had a great worship service and Spence shared the Christmas story with the children. Here are a couple quotes from him to the kids : after telling them about Gabriel telling Mary she was going to have a baby- “If you want to know why Mary was so surprised that she was having a baby, you should ask your parents”, and “we’ll call Caesar ‘The Man’ cause he was always keeping people down”. Jason Gaston preached an awesome sermon that was perfect for Christmas Eve.

Spence and the kids

Zeke had just dumped Baby Jesus out of his bed

Christmas morning Zeke decided he should wake up early as all children on Christmas do. Since we were up before 6, we decided to go ahead and get the day started. Zeke could have just taken two toys from his stocking and called it a day. We were able to get him to open some of his gifts. He really seemed to like the two “big” things we got him: a Little People farm and the Crayola drawing thing that makes music when you draw (he couldn’t quite get the drawing thing down though because he kept trying to dance to the music- too cute!)

4 Stockings!!!!

Our tree

Sweet Ben

Down on the farm

Early morning smile

Zeke took an early nap and then we headed to the Shelton household for lunch and the Little household for supper and staying the night. Zeke’s favorite toy was probably the bag of balls from Aunt Tori and Uncle Matt. Oh, another highlight was when Uncle Scott held Ben!! While at his Yaya and Pawpaw’s house he really enjoyed playing with his cousins- but I forgot to take any pictures of them being cute together. After a pretty rough night of very little sleep we hung out at my parents for the morning, then did Christmas with Pop (Spencer's grandpa) and the Shelton side of the family. (Once again, no pictures)

"Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball..."

Not sure who was more uncomfortable, hehe ;)

I think this Christmas was definitely a tough one between juggling two little ones, but we enjoyed it. It was wonderful to spend Christmas Eve with our church family and Christmas day with lots of family- grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was a whirlwind trip, and we are all exhausted, but we had a blast spending time with family. I am sure next year will be even more jam packed, but hopefully I will do a better job of taking pictures.

(oh and yes I am totally going to dress us back up sometime this week in our Christmas day attire and take a picture in front of our tree before we take it down. I at least have to get a photo of our family and we can just pretend it was Christmas day, right?)