Friday, July 28, 2023

Christmas (Eve, Day, and the days following, enjoying our gifts)

Ready for Christmas morning.
Makayla enjoying the hot chocolate bar
Adalyn was baby Jesus for one last year.
The star above baby Jesus shown brightly.




We got shepards, donkeys, angels, etc.
Waiting to open presents...I don't think they slept very well, Michael was still yawning.
Lined up
Checking out the stockings.
Emma got stick on nails
Adalyn and Dad at church.
Grandma and Grandpa Stephenson gave us a stair slide for Christmas!!
That's one way to do laundry...
My parents (who are on a mission) gave us money and challenged us to spend it doing service for someone, then to report back.  At the giving vending machine, we gave a goat to a family in Africa to better their lives.



As it's falling...
Adalyn got a marble set and LOVES it!
Decorating gingerbread houses together.
Michael
Zach
Adalyn and Emma worked with Dad (I mostly helped with frosting and passing out candy)
Makayla
Joseph








eating frosting Michael?
Visiting George at Grandma and Grandpa Stephensons.

 This is out of order...at the giving vending machine.

Pre-Christmas

Emma next to the tree
Zach and Emma posing by the tree.
She's saying "cheeeeeese"
All together now
At our ward Christmas party.

Joseph with his 4th cousin
Makayla with props

As a reindeer
As santa
Santa and his elf.
Adalyn in her Christmas dress, next to the tree.
Emma in her Christmas dress, next to the tree.

The kids wanted to take my picture next to the tree.
Rob's mom put a "how-to make gnomes" on her youtube channel, so Makayla made several.
So cute!

 At the library with Mrs. Clause.