christmas 2009

this year's christmas was...white, quiet and peaceful. i have a lot of make-up bloging to do but i will just share a little bit about what happened in our family on christmas morning.

the boys woke up at 7 and brought their stockings into our bed.


they were a bit stuffed, so we couldn't hang them!


then we went downstairs with my parents and made blueberry muffins. we had aj read the passage about Jesus' birth


while riley acted it out with the nativity


then we prayed and started opening gifts. we bought the boys 3 gifts each this year, and i really enjoyed doing that. our kids are really grateful and i love that about them. they have great reactions to what they open and it is so fun to watch them!

this is the first year that adam wasn't able to see any of his family for christmas. it was hard for him. God has blessed us both with godly parents (and grand parents!) and we are so thankful for the relationship that we have with adam's parents who now live in florida. adam's mom made all the boys patriots scarves and they loved them!!



how could i possible end without saying what adam got me?? after everything was opened, adam and the boys said they had one more gift for me. they went to the basement and came up with this!



i have quite the man!!