Christmas 2009

Playing in the sandbox on Christmas Day...


My boys...


Our annual Christmas Eve picture....

Sam told me what he wanted to write on the card to Santa and then he signed his name.

Christmas 2009 was so much fun. It was probably one of the best Decembers of our married life. We took things slow and said no to almost everything that was outside of direct family time. I didn't blog, Scott came home early from work, and we played so much! We made great memories. One of the things that helped was getting all of the shopping for Christmas done early. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to do it again, but it allowed us to focus on more on Jesus and less on the hustle of the season. Sweet, sweet memories. I wish we could go back and do it all over again and I'm already dreaming of what Christmas 2010 will be like!

Christmas Eve we went to the service at our church and then came home to celebrate with Nana and Pops. Scott made Hopkins County Stew and it was so yummy. The kids had a great time and it was special to share the holiday with Nana and Pops because it's the first time we have eer done that. After Nana and Pops left, we all put on our Christmas pjs and Sam set out cookies for Santa. We spent a lot of time talking about Santa this year...should we or shouldn't we. I love some of Noel Piper's thoughts on this. For us, we've chosen not to make it the focus of our celebration, but we are going to play along with Santa.

We woke up Christmas morning to share some sweet time as a family. We opened presents and ate breakfast. The kids had a blast and I can still feel how peaceful everything felt that day. We had planned to head to Oklahoma that day, but got delayed by the Great Blizzard of 2009 that hit Honey and Papa's house. We weren't sure what to do at first, but ultimately we ended up spending the whole day at home playing. The kids were outside almost all day. It was a perfect day!

An Oklahoma Christmas coming up next.....