This year my mom and I made a record number of Christmas treats. We made 8 plates for Brandon to take to his job sites, 6 tins for teachers, plus extras for the kids and for our big family gatherings. It's a lot of work but it's also one of my favorite Christmas traditions.
Another favorite tradition of mine is sending and receiving Christmas Cards. Thanks to Grammy we got our pictures taken back in September so my cards were ready to go 1st of the month. Unfortunately I somehow managed to stamp EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. on the wrong side. So embarrassing but thankfully they all got where they needed to go and the few people I asked said they didn't noticed. Chalk it up to 2020 and being a mom of 7!
Here are a few additional pictures from our little family photo shoot.
Aubrey
Evie
Hazel
And then of course there are the decorations. Nothing makes it feel more like Christmas at our house than candles on the table and a lighted tree. We didn't put any gifts under the tree until a few days before Christmas but we did decorate it right away and surprisingly the babies left it alone. I was picturing them constantly messing with the ornaments but they were great!
Christmas morning we made our traditional Christmas breakfast of Great-Great-Grandma Swier's cinnamon rolls, eggs, and little smokies. This year Grammy, Caleb, and Uncle Robert joined us for breakfast and gifts. The kids used their allowance money to shop for one another on Amazon. It makes for a lot of little gifts but it's fun seeing how excited they are to give gifts to each other. They were all really thoughtful in their buying this year and their gifts included Legos, slime, Hatchimals, Barbie's, lots of football cards, and even little toys for the babies.
Daddy reading the Christmas story.
The big gift for the oldest 3 this year was a Nintendo Switch and we're hoping we don't quickly regret our life choices. Seriously thought they were so excited. They love playing Mario Cart on Caleb's Nintendo at Grammy's house.
Hazel and Evie's big gift was the long asked for and wished for Barbie Dream House. Again possibly a regrettable life decision. :) Hazel especially has been asking and asking and asking for this and when she eventually got in trouble for asking she started with questions like, "Is God more important than a Barbie Dream House? Is food more important than a Barbie Dream House? Are ALL the presents here?" She even had one point during our Advent devotional where we were talking about idols and she recognized that a Barbie Dream House was hers. Anyway, after 2 years of wishing and hoping she was one excited little girl when we pulled this in from Grammy's car where it had been sneakily hiding.
After naps we headed over to Grammy's for Christmas Dinner.
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