Christmas Day!!! Man it's even hard for me to sleep the night before. The kids woke up with such excitement and could barely wait to run down the stairs. We began by having a prayer and offering our gifts to Jesus and writing them down and putting them in our box. I love this tradition. We then lined the kids up and I went down first to make sure Santa had in fact made it to our house. We had to wake Kemp up and it was so funny how "out of it" and tired he was. Then they all ran down. So fun to see the excitement in their eyes and their joy seeing so many fun gifts. We are so beyond blessed. They were so darling and appreciative and I loved every second watching them. We didn't have long because we had church at 11:00. In my honest opinion I wish Christmas were always on a Sunday. Couldn't ask for a better day to celebrate our Savior's Life. We got all ready and ran over to the ward building. It was nice to have Toby sit with us because we combined wards and we only had Sacrament. After church we came back and let the kids play with gifts while we got ready to head over to Kathy's. We had a wonderful dinner over at Kathy's house and then went in her living room to open gifts. The kids were so excited to get some Legos, books, a pop up frog tent, and Toby got his retro Nintendo he'd been wanting for so long. We laughed and played and had a great time together and then headed over to my parents to do the same. We decided to just buy gifts for the kids this year and so after they exchanged my parents had put together a little "white elephant exchange" and that was fun to do together. It was a wonderful FULL day. So nice again to have on the Sabbath. The kids ended the night by wanted to sleep together to a movie in their new sleeping bags. It's hard to see the day end. I sure love this little family of mine.
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