Christmas! Too much fun!

Christmas was alot of fun this year. On Christmas Eve after we came home from the Lloyd party we got the children dressed in their Christmas pajama's and read the Nativity story. After that we gathered around the piano (Reece on Dad's lap and Benson on mine) and we sang a bunch of Christmas songs. Nicki gave us the neatest Christmas songbook full of hymns, Christmas songs from the Primary songbook, and other popular Christmas songs. But the cool thing about it was the book was full of the most beautiful pictures to go with the songs. The pictures made all the difference for the boys--they actually sat on our laps and listened to us sing and play the different songs. They started to pick out songs according to the pictures. It was a special and peaceful night--I felt like I was on top of the world having my husband and children around the piano singing together!

Here are some pictures from Christmas morning.

This ABC toy has a great story to go with it. I saw it on slickdeals.net for $10 at walmart. I went to purchase it online and they were sold out. While Reece was at preschool Benson and I went to Toys R Us and found this toy. Benson fell in love with it. I took it to the register to see if they price matched, which they didn't. So I gave it to the cashier and out we went. Well, Benson immediately started crying saying, " I want my ABC toy"--which is totally uncharacteristic of him. He usually could care less about that. Anyway, it took him 10 minutes to stop crying. A couple days later we were going the direction of Toys R Us and Benson started whining, "I want my ABC toy". I couldn't believe he remembered that! So, I had to buy it for him. He has been in love with it ever since and his eyes lite up when he opened it.

New helmet to go with his new bike (or Reece's old one....we added a bell and water bottle to make it new and exciting--which it was!). Benson loved his bike and rode it all morning. We had to pry him off of it so he could open his other presents.

Classic Reece. He got lots of new books and was in heaven. Please notice in this picture our lovely tree!! It died on us a week or so before Christmas. We were praying it would last through Christmas morning and it did!!! It was released from its duties shortly after Christmas.

Natty came over to see what the boys got from Santa. She was pleasantly surprised that Santa had granted her wish and brought her a new Kindle. We had convinced her she wasn't getting one so it was fun to see her be so surprised!