Christmas Eve Service at Church is when we always take pictures in front of the tree.
These are my Christmas Babies, but when did they grow up! They aren't babies anymore!
Christmas morning on the stairs ready to come down. Michael thinks I do this just to torture them. I do it because it's tradition!
In their jammies ready for presents!
Christmas of 2022 was completely different since we had the Cabin Christmas. We told the kids we weren't going to be buying them their 4 gifts....Want, Need, Wear, Read. The cabin was their big present. On our way home from the cabin they all agreed that they were okay with not having 4 presents they wanted to possibly be able to have just a couple presents that were maybe more expensive.
There is actually photographic proof that I was there....it's a Christmas miracle! :)
Zeke drew Ella's name this year. He bought her lip gloss and a necklace set.
Owen drew Jack's name. He got him a Lego set he'd been wanting.
Ella drew Owen's name and she got him 2 sets of Jenga blocks. He never plays the game he just uses them to make set ups with army men or Angry Birds.
Jack drew Zeke's name and he got him a new version of Uno and 2 bags of Taki Stix.
For Michael the kids got him Golf Balls, candy and a golf towel and says, "It takes a lot of balls to golf the way I do!" Which is entirely accurate! :P
It's hard to see in this picture, but we got Ella a cross necklace.
I bought the boys shaving kits which as you can see by Owen's face he was not thrilled with.
The boys' big present was a Switch....I wrapped up everything separately though. One of them opened up the Switch, one opened the case and one opened all the games. This was why one of the older boys' gifts were shaving kits. That Switch wasn't cheap! Zeke also got a hygiene gift....he got an electric toothbrush.
Ella also got a shaving kit, this cute sweatshirt and the cutest brown boots.
I bought Michael nice golf shoes. It was so stressful picking them out. I hated all the boring old man white golf shoes so I knew I wanted to find ones that were a fun color. I read up on some consumer reports and these had good reviews. I loved the look of them and I trust the Under Armour brand so I took a chance. We won't find out if they are good for a while though since it's not really golfing weather right now. I also got him some fun golf tees and a NYT crossword book.
Of course there's no pictures of me with my opened presents. :) I got couple shirts from the kids, slippers and kitchen gadgets....liquid measuring cups and a pancake pourer. From Michael I got this cute Bakery to add to my Christmas Villages. I also got tickets to see 3 plays at the Taproot Theater which I'm super excited about. We haven't been to the theater since it had a major fire years ago. It will be really fun for date nights.
Moving onto stockings. All the kids got movies. Zeke got all the Mission Impossible movies, Owen got Oblivion and Jack got the 2 Top Gun movies...we are on a Tom Cruise kick! Ella got the 2 Snow White and the Huntsmen movies.
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