MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We are grateful for this Christmas season and for the joy we feel in celebrating the birth of our Savior. We are thankful for all of our wonderful family and friends! We meant to get a Christmas letter out by now, but it hasn't happened yet. We will try to get it sent before July!:) In the meantime, we send our love and Merry Christmas wishes to all of our blogging buddies!


On Christmas Eve, we acted out the Christmas story with puppets. Zoee was the star of the show as the shepherds' little lamb :). We all had a lot of fun, and it was on a level Jaden could understand.


We also carried on one of Daniel's family traditions, which is to have a "happy birthday, Jesus" cake. We made it Christmasy with yummy candy cane frosting. We let Jaden put the candles on the cake unsupervised, and he got plenty of them on there. We lit 3 of the candles, sang happy birthday, let Jaden blow out the candles, then had some cake together. Jaden absolutely loved it!


HOT, HOT, HOT! :)
After Jaden went to bed, I gave Daniel a haircut. It was the first time he let me try cutting his hair. He made me wait until Christmas break, because he wanted to have time for it to grow out a little if I really botched it. Well, much to his surprise (and mine too:), it turned out pretty well! However, Jaden got out of bed when I was trimming around Daniel's ears. He looked in and asked, "Mommy, cutting daddy's ear off?" Of course, my obnoxious husband started screaming out as if in pain, "No, no, mommy, don't cut my ear off!! Owweee, owwee!" Well, that really got Jaden riled up, and he started screaming, "No, mommy! stop, stop!" I had to hurry and get the haircut finished to calm the chaos! :)




We had a nice Christmas morning together, opening presents and eating a hot breakfast.


Here are some pictures of Zoee digging in her loot. I'm not sure if her favorite present was the diapers, the wipes, or the new C batteries she got for her swing!



We then shared a simple, but yummy Christmas lunch/dinner with our friends that just live a few houses down! Now we're going to end the night relaxing with a fun Christmas movie! What a wonderful day!


My cute Christmas babies

ps- Here's my early Christmas present. I can't really remember ever wanting to be a minivan driver, but it sure is nice getting the two kids in and out and hauling all of their stuff around! Besides, after only having one car for more that a year and a half, I was glad to have anything that drives! :)