Happy Birthday Jesus!

What a day!


Nathan was feeling sick on Christmas Eve, which made me very nervous. No one wants to be sick for Christmas. He was on guard for kids coming downstairs, a.k.a asleep on the couch, and was able to rest until he felt better.


Garrett woke up at 1 a.m. and was VERY EXCITED to see that Santa had already been to our house. He was wide awake and ready to open presents, but we were able to convince him to sleep a little longer (atleast 5 hours!!!) and then we could all see what Santa had brought.


The kids were very excited to come down and see all of their presents.


Dylan said that Santa is like a wise man, because he brought us presents, just like they brought presents to Jesus. They all think Santa is very nice.


We began our morning reading about Jesus' birth and the kids sang "Happy Birthday Jesus". We then attempted to open presents one at a time - CRAZY!!!! How do you do that with 5 kids?????


Grandma Theresa came for Christmas Brunch, which is another new tradition, and that night when Sami and Macy went to have Christmas with their mom and her family, Grandma babysat Garrett, Dylan and Sydney so that we could relax. That was by far the best Christmas Present we could have received! We went to a movie! It was so much fun, and the kids got to have fun playing with Grandma.


That night I got sick with the flu, which was horrible, but I was so thankful to make it through Christmas first. I did miss a family Christmas with the Smith's on Saturday, but Nathan was well by then and able to take the kids all over.... which gave me a few hours to rest without children climbing on me or asking me for a drink, a snack, to play, etc... Brent and Rachel were a great help to Nathan, as were Dan and Kim and Phil and Kathy. The kids had lots of fun being there.