Sunday, August 31, 2014

Our Florida trip - Christmas day

Christmas in August??  Yes, still catching up!!  Here's the first of a few more posts from our Florida trip...

It's a joy every year to set aside time to celebrate our Savior's birth. We started our Advent calendar at home on December 1 (the kids add the different pieces of the Christmas story to our nativity scene and we read Bible verses from the story), and brought along the verses to read for each day in Florida. On Christmas eve we talked about the whole story and had a special prayer together.

Each year the kids understand a bit more about gifts on Christmas morning, and Ry was especially excited. :) We donned our antlers and hats and had great fun opening gifts together!



Auntie Kimmy makes the best faces!

Yay a football!!

Treats!

Jason loves this hilarious snorting pig from his dad and Deb! :)  He still loves anything "pig."  It has become a great tension breaker with the kids at home too... you can't help but laugh when you hear it!

Jimmy and Katie are so cute!


Priceless expression :)



Hugging her new Pooh!  She sleeps with Pooh in her bed :)



Super cute hat from Grandma Deb and Grandpa

Raspberries and tickles from Uncle Jimmy!!

Thank you again to all our family for the amazing gifts... we're all still enjoying everything! :)

Another hilarious gift, this time for Uncle Jimmy... everyone got to try them on :)


More great expressions!




Playing with his new golf club set in the backyard... and getting expert lessons from Grandpa! :)



Miss adorable! :)




Jason set up his lights and was taking portraits of everyone who wanted one :)



Adorbs :)




The goofy brothers :)



Lainie, Gary, my mom, and Larry, as well as Deb's sister Linda and her family, all joined us to celebrate the day and have a delicious meal in the afternoon :)


The weather was beautiful so we all ate at one long table on the porch!  The food was amazing, as always!


Dessert smiles :)

Family photo!  It was a wonderful day, and it always means so much to us to be together!! We are so thankful for our family.

Ry trying out his new toy shaving kit at bath time that night!  So cute!!

No comments:

Post a Comment