We have had a great Christmas and a busy one. This was at our first Christmas party. We arrived early to help decorate. Benjamin decided that he would decorate himself :)
We sang two songs in two languages. We have been practicing, but none of us expected so many people. Over 200 people showed up!!! It was great! And we have had many reasons to celebrate this year!
Lauren is giving away one of her famous hugs. If you haven't gotten one from her, get ready. They are the BEST.
This was at our Christmas party #2. We tried to have some treats from the States there. I had many grand plans of cooking all kinds of goodies, but ran out of vanilla extract. It will be so nice to be able to run to a grocery store one day and pick up something that we run out of :) I managed to get some things done and we had a great time. Oh, and we got some more vanilla extract in a package! hooray!
Lauren stocking up on her favorite snack.
A friend sent the kids a each a gift for Christmas. We didn't open it at first because it was all in characters and came from in country, so we assumed it was for our landlord...UNTIL I got a text around 11 pm asking if we got our gifts. oops. So the kids got to open them as soon as they got up. It was a nice surprise.
Local schools are still in session, but we have told the kids that they do not have to go this week. I think they have had fun just getting to play together outside.
Katherine snuck into Benjamin's room and geared up with his hand made weapons :) It was her turn to have some target practice :) I was actually quite impressed with Benjamin's assembly. I'm not sure I would have thought to use a coat hanger and a paper towel roll to hold the arrows/sticks.
On Christmas Eve, we open the from each other. I love this one. Jonathan was acting so excited over his gift, but he was actually opening up Lauren's gift that Katherine had given her. So here the girls are just watching a little confused and Daddy is super excited over some blocks :) All is good. He gave them to Lauren and then she helped him open another present.
Regan and I ended up with matching socks. Benjamin picked them out for me and Lauren picked them out for Regan. They have good taste :) We love fuzzy house socks!
Lauren got a little lamb.
Regan got a stuffed kitty.
I just love how awake the kids look in this picture. You have to love Christmas morning!
And this is the picture before we opened presents. We all had a wonderful day. Regan got her American Girl doll, Benjamin and Katherine got CD players, and Lauren got roller blades. We hope you all had a very merry Christmas!!!!!!!!
