Christmas

Christmas this year was SO FUN!  I love watching Christmas through the eyes of a child.  Jake was definitely into it this year.  We spent the weeks before talking about Jesus' birthday, Santa Claus, obeying or else our little elf friend would report back to Santa, talking about what kind of cookies to make, singing all kinds of Christmas songs, playing with our nativity scene and really just enjoying the season and what each new day brought.  While I missed being in Dallas it was nice waking up just our little family and spending the morning together playing and just having fun.

On Christmas Eve, we went to our church and then over to Ben and Tatiana's house for dinner.  Tatiana's whole family from Colombia was there and we all had a great time.  Right before bed, we put out the milk and cookies and candy (what Jake wanted to add) and picture for Santa and then we planted our "donut tree" (a first tradition for us) and all went to sleep happy and completely anticipating tomorrow's FUN!  :)

Planting the "seeds"

Christmas morning!

 It worked!  Our seeds magically turned into DONUTS!!!  :)

 Afterwards we headed to Al and Janis' house for the rest of the day.  Santa had of course come there too and had brought the most awesome John Deere "gador."

I love seeing Jake hold his hands like this- so sweet!

"Is this thing really for ME?!?"

And they are OFF!

 Are they having fun or WHAT?!?

This was our dessert!  Have you ever seen anything cuter?!?

It was a fun and special day!  I enjoyed every moment of being with my family, treasuring the reason we celebrate Christmas and so incredibly thankful for everything that I have been blessed with!