Santa Came to Our House

The day had finally come... and the kids picked this day to "sleep in." They are usually up before 6:30, but slept until 7:00 Christmas day. Either way, Santa had come and brought presents. Kimble and Karter loved the motorcycles, as Kimble calls them. Even the fruit snacks in their stockings were a big hit. They even got ZuZu pets from Grandma & Papa Johnson. After letting them open their gifts, there were not very many, we turned on a movie, Gumby, and Kevin & I opened our presents together. By the time we were done Koltyn was awake and it was his turn. He is obviously not old enough to open his own presents, but he loved to eat the wrapping paper that came from them.





Kevin decided that he had to make some sweet bread like his mom used to do. It looked really yummy, but the middle was not quite done. So we just picked around the outside.

We had to get a picture of Koltyn in his "First Christmas" shirt. Kevin's sister, Julie, gave it to us. So cute!

I got a mini tripod for my camera the night before, so we tried it out by taking a family picture in front of our tree before heading out. It worked well and even fits inside our camera case. It will definitely come in handy in the future.

We went back to my parents and opened more presents. We spent the rest of the day over there playing and getting ready for a family party that night. Kevin and Koltyn were a little worn out and grabbed a quick nap on the couch.

After dinner, we had the kids act out the nativity one more time. Each re-enactment Kimble was a different figure. First, the donkey; then, Mary; and finally, the angel. She was a little sad that the costume did not include wings, so she just flapped her arms to pretend.

It was another late night for us, but is was great to be surrounded by family. We love spending time together and always have great food to eat. But we are especially grateful that live so close to our family and that we were able to celebrate the birth of our Savior we the people that we love.