December is an exciting and busy month, but so special and fun. I LOVE watching the kids experiance the magic of Christmas, and enjoy watching them understand the meaning of Christmas a little more each year. This year was very neat because the kids were very excited about picking out gifts for others, they spent a lot of time thinking about what they wanted to get each person and picking out that "perfect" gift. They were very excited to watch people open their gifts and see what had been chosen. Jolie got to volunteer at Care and Share with her Girl Scout troop, which started a conversation about how lucky we are and ended with us helping to provide presents and dinner to family that isn't as lucky as us (again, the kids really put a lot of thought into what we chose for that family). So here it is...
December started with a Christmas Tree (a REAL one!!!)
The kids had a blast decorating it.
We went to the Parade of Lights (it was COLD! a lovely -5)
at the parade the kids met "Elvis" :)
Grady all bundled up
The kids meeting Santa at the Christmas party for Shawn's work.
and here it is...
"Say hello to my little friend"
Jolie opening one of her gifts (a fur real kitty)
and Grady playing with his new toy.
I couldn't have asked for a better Christmas. We had an amazing time filled with family and friends. We are so blessed.
No comments:
Post a Comment