Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas 2008





We've had such a wonderful Christmas. The only sad thing is that it passes so quickly. We look forward to it for so long with such great anticipation, and then it's over in a flash. On Christmas Eve, we spent the evening with my parents at their house and went to church with them to have the Lord's Supper and pray. Then we ate dinner at their house and exchanged gifts with them.

This morning, the kids woke up bright and early to the sound of sleigh bells ringing!!! They jumped out of bed and were yelling that they heard sleigh bells. Randy and I thought we had heard something too, but you know how it is.....in all of the excitement of Christmas, maybe we were just imagining it. Santa was very good to the kids and some very nice gifts were left for them. After breakfast, we went outside to turn our outside lights off and there at the edge of the porch, Will found a reindeer collar of sleigh bells. One of the reindeer must have lost it when they took off from our house. So they DID hear sleigh bells ringing!!! Ahhhh.....the magic and wonder of Christmas :)

We can't forget though the real reason that we celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Randy read the story from Luke 2 and all throughout the day we could hear the kids saying Happy Birthday Jesus. Addie asked if he was having a birthday party in heaven.

Enjoy a few pictures from our day!

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