Christmas Eve

The Lord has truly blessed us this year in so many ways; our health, friends and family, our jobs, a warm house, our church and I could go on and on but especially the true "reason for the season", our Lord. I have always known, (almost always) the true meaning of Christmas but this year it hit home a bit more. I've put a lot more thought into it and have come to realize that it is so easy to forget why this holiday is celebrated and what it is that we should be celebrating-the birth of our Lord and Savior. He had to come so that we could be forgiven, so that we could be saved. Now, that's a gift! Its better than any other gift that could be given or received-it lasts forever. With this in mind, I think that we need to live in celebration of this fact every day of the year, don't let this thankful attitude end after the "season".

Ok, it has always been a tradition in my family to open a gift on Christmas Eve and so we have continued that tradition with the girls. We usually have a big dinner at my mom's but that didn't happen this year do to work schedules and family that was traveling. After the girls opened there gift, Bryan had to go to work(he was so excited with all of the snow-NOT!) and we went over to my mom's to hang out and snack. The girls got to open their gifts from grandma and grandpa that evening too. They got to practice being patient since grandpa didn't get home until almost 9:00 due to the snowey roads. It was pure torcher.

Here are the girls at my moms opening their gifts.

This is a really cute devotional for kids-I'm going to use it during school.

Here are the girls opening their one gift at home before Bryan went to work. Jessie guessed what they were before they opened them.

Mom, dad, they look like sleeping bags.......

guess what.....

they are sleeping bags!

Now, how do they open?

TA-DA. Two bugs in a rug!

They both wanted to sleep in their new bags that night, surprise, surprise.