Christmas

Wow this last month has just flown by.  I apologize it has taken me so long to get back to my blog.  I have a few blogs I need to post, I think we shall start with Christmas.  Our holiday was lovely, a bit quieter than normal, but still very nice.  The reason for the season was celebrating the birth of our savior and that was wonderful.

We haven't gone to a candle light Christmas Eve service in years.  This year some friends of ours that have a church in our area had a service at 3:30, perfect.  We missed naps but it all worked out.  It was so good to see our friends and hear our friend preach.

Then we headed to my parents house.  We enjoyed good food, the kids acted out the nativity story as I read it, Cassandra played a carol on the piano, Danika played one on the violin, and Sierra played one on the piano.  Then Danika and Sierra played as we sang carols.  They did sooo good and my mama heart rejoiced as we worshiped our savior while they played.  We played games with my parents and siblings, dressed in our Christmas pjs, then headed quickly home and to bed.

The next day was a little sad because we were missing a few of our family members, Alex and Ivy had Christmas at their home in the neighboring state and Brent, Latisha, and August went to be with them; but we still had such a good day.  David totally surprised and blessed me.  He had taken scraps from previous years of left over Christmas pjs I had made for the family, cut them into squares and took the squares to a friend who sewed them into a beautiful and extremely sentimental quilt.  I was very emotional when I saw it.  What a thoughtful gift.  The kids enjoyed opening gifts and Aidric was very expressive with each gift.  Isabella loves going through our family photo albums but is not very gentle, so I had made Isabella a photo album that she can go through of pictures of herself and family.    This entertained her for quite the time and she still loves to study the pictures and turn the pages.  My brother and his son, my sister, her husband and daughter, and my parents joined us for a great food and games, including a friendly game of ping pong.  The day was lovely and topped off with an extremely beautiful white Christmas.

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we look forward to all 2017 has in store.   God bless and have a blessed day, Alicia

Cassandra singing with the kids at church

Isabella and David 

Church service the Sunday before Christmas 

Cassandra as Mary and Aidric as Joseph

Cassandra playing her song

Danika her's 

Sierra hers

together

Christmas pjs

My amazing quilt

Christmas Day

Isabella and her book

The sun setting Christmas day

Christmas meal