Merry Christmas!

We've had a very nice Christmas holiday here in our home. This year we chose to have a very low-key, slow-paced, relaxing time.

Last night we had our traditional Christmas eve singing Christmas carols, reading scriptures, acting out the nativity story, opening a few presents (including pajamas!) and enjoying some Christmas treats (which we had made earlier in the day). We also finally tried out our fireplace for the first time (we finally took time to get it cleaned a couple of weeks ago).

Here are some pictures of the candy making.





Here are the kids sporting their new pajamas on Christmas Eve.



Most of the kids fell asleep quickly, but Adam stayed up WAY too late and ended up somehow injuring his nose in bed around 10:30 pm last night (just about the time Santa Clause was loading up the stockings). So he jumped out of bed crying and we almost ended up with a trip to the emergency room on Christmas eve. In the end we decided it wasn't serious enough to go to the hospital and are just hoping now that it doesn't scar! Jake also had a rough night and we were up with him until about 1:00 am.

Even with the late night, all the kids were hopping around our room before 6:00 am excited to go downstairs to open presents. Tammy and I reluctantly crawled out of bed and we headed down.

Here are the kids making their way to the great room where the presents were:


Tammy got me a really nice gift - a mini, hand-held digital video camera. We've not had a way to record videos for our blog before (other than short sound-less videos) so this is perfect. You'll now hopefully get to see a few more videos of our family.

So, you can watch to learn about the rest of our Christmas morning!



We hope that you all had a very peaceful and enjoyable Christmas morning!