Some pictures and memories from Christmas 2014.
It was a super special Christmas because my parents spent it with us! It's the first Christmas Grandma Evie and Grandpa Mike have spent with my kids.
Christmas 2014 was memorable in another way too--poor David was really, really sick. Like the sickest he's every been (except for that time he ended up in the hospital). Like so sick that on Christmas morning he had to be carried down the stairs. So sick he didn't have the strength to open any presents. It was very, very sad. Poor guy! We're hoping Christmas 2015 is a little better for him.
And my favorite memories? Mary has a little lamb. (Mary was a shepherd, and Sara wore her lamb Halloween costume.) Also, when we had our little Christmas Eve concert, and Sara (still wearing her lamb costume) took out her MusikGarten rhythm sticks to perform for us the thumpity-thump part of "Frosty the Snowman." Precious.
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| Christmas Eve dinner. Poor David was missing. And he loves this meal! |
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| Mary had a little lamb! Mary the shepherd with her lamb, who for some reason is holding our baby Jesus. |
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| Say cheese, little lamb. |
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| The shepherd and her sheep. (Why is Baby Jesus with the shepherd?) Do you see poor David in the background? And Grandma Evie preparing for her entrance as the angel? |
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| The angel appears! |
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| Mary and the lamb and the lamb's lamb worship Baby Jesus (played by Katie, Mary's Bitty Baby). |
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| Grandma Evie and Grandpa Mike as the wise men! |
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| Everybody! (Except Greg who was Joseph-photographer-narrator.) Even our sad David is in the picture. |
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| Christmas Eve group picture! |
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| Our little concert. David briefly rose from the dead to play the piano. What a trooper! |
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| And Sara takes out the rhythm sticks! |
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| She wasn't going to miss out on performing too! |
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| Thumpity thump thump! |
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| What a pro. |
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| We have a few select Christmas Eve presents. Sara was a helper, still dressed as a lamb. |
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| After jammies it was time to light the candles and sing carols. |
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| Christmas morning! Santa brought Sara a Bitty Baby, Mary a karaoke machine, and David a Playmobil rc train. Poor David had to be carried down and only had the strength to admire the train from the couch. |
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| It was fun to have grandparents help play with the new stuff. |
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| And let's not forget Christmas jammies! Look at my sweet Christmas morning polar bears! |
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| After this picture was taken, there was plenty of present opening and food eating all day long! |
Another memory: On Christmas evening we have a scavenger hunt that ends in a family present. This year it ended in a new toilet!! Which I was super excited about. But our kids weren't quite old enough to appreciate the humor. Mary burst into tears. It was the biggest Christmas fail ever! Except that it was such a fail that it was hilarious. All the tears! We are seriously so mean that we got our kids a toilet for Christmas! Hah! Okay, so it was a huge disappointment, but I have to say that the toilet went in the kids' bathroom and it had been AWESOME!!! Best toilet ever. No clogs, no grossness, and for some reason it's easier for little and big boys to maintain correct aim. Love it.
P.S. This is being posted from THE FUTURE. I'm writing this post on December 1, 2015--but I'm cheating on the post date so it will be archived in the right place. Ah, Christmas 2014 was a good one. And now we're ready for the joy of the holidays in 2015!
