Christmas

Christmas morning! Our kids slept in until around 8 or so. (We'd been up for awhile already and had breakfast already made.) The best Christmas present was they all slept in their own beds and not one of them crawled into our bed during the night.

My sister Ruth and her family came in from Texas and stayed with us for Christmas. We had to wake them up around 8:30am cause my kids were ready to open presents and they were still all sound asleep!

Christmas morning tradition: I make danish abelskievers and Steven makes cinnamon rolls. This is the Christmas cinnamon roll wreath he makes.

Steen LOVED his flying airplanes from Santa. Santa was smart enough to bring 2 planes so there wouldn't be fighting with little playmates. Unfortunately, Santa bought cheap batteries (the kind you might find at say the dollar store) and they didn't really last through Christmas morning. We went and bought some rechargeable. batteries the next day.

Andrea got a sleeping beauty vanity from Santa.
Steen was caught playing with it...should we be worried?

Michaela got a camera from Santa and some scrapbooking things from mom and dad. She has been taking pictures of everyone and having a blast.

Grandma and Grandpa West gave the kids a puppet show theater and Aunt Diane and Aunt Helen gave them a bunch of puppets. They had fun doing little shows.

Steen is has his dad's accounting genes and is well on his way to making millions. He immediately opened up shop and started selling his Christmas candy for $5 a pop!

We felt very blessed this Christmas to be with family and have too much yummy food (I think I gained 13 lbs. this month) as well as a warm home and great friends. We're still employed and we have 3 beautiful children with one on the way. Most importantly we have a Savior who loves each of us and we're grateful for his infinite gift that he gave us and we celebrate especially at Christmas!