Merry Christmas!

Christmas' with little kids cannot be beat and we had so much fun this year with our holiday celebrating. One of the highlights leading up to Christmas was an activity my mom put together called the Amazing Christmas Race. In teams we raced to several stations that included:

Dressing up (Chloe as a pregnant Mary) and traveling a path to Bethlehem

and counting out our taxes in the form of corn kernalsWe also followed a yarn path to find the star, sang Away In the Manger, and each wrote something that makes us grateful for our Savior.
The completion of each task was rewarded with puzzles that when put together followed the scriptural account of the birth of the Savior. I know this required a lot of work, but we had so much fun and enjoyed celebrating the real reason we celebrate. Christmas seemed to come fast this year, which is surprising because of the amount of times daily I was asked when it would finally get here. Despite their conviction that the day would never come, they did finally wake up to find it was finally here!

We enjoyed spending a portion of the day with family and are grateful for all the gifts we received

We, as well as our house, have yet to recover from Christmas fun and the kids already are asking when it will be Christmas again.

The present I am most grateful for? My beautiful family - I could never want for anything more!

Merry Christmas!