It's been a long, full day...but a great day!
At 6:30 this morning, my alarm went off. I figured the kids would wake up about that time, so I set our alarm to wake up before them. We crawled out of bed & greeted them at Samuel's doorway (where they were all sleeping) with the birthday cake & party stuff in hand. Here are some pictures from our birthday party for Jesus.
Larry reading the Bible story to us---
After reading the story, singing Happy Birthday & eating our cake, the boys got a little silly. See...
Then we moved to the living room to open presents.
Savannah was quite pleased with her loot. Her very favorite gift was the Neopets magazines (some old backissues) that I bought on eBay for $5.00! At least she's easy to please. :)
Samuel loved everything he opened.
Sarah loved her barking dog puppet.
While the kids were really wired & ready to be up for the day, Larry and I were tired & ready to go lay back down for a little while. After all, it wasn't even daylight yet!
and me in all my no make up, 6:30am, sleepy, pajama-wearin' glory (yawn)
Larry & I did go back to sleep for a little while, but got up in time to go to the movies! It's become a Christmas tradition around here for us to go on Christmas day, so we went to see Alvin & the Chipmunks at 11:10 this morning. We got popcorn & sodas...that was our lunch. Tee hee...sorry mom. Nutrition kind of goes out the window today. :) It was a cute movie. We all enjoyed it. Larry had wanted to go see National Treasure 2 today, but I felt like it was over all the kids' heads and they all wanted to see Alvin & the Chipmunks, so we skipped it. He decided when we came out of the Chipmunk movie that he'd go ahead & buy a ticket for himself to come back tonight & see the National Treasure movie alone. Before he left tonight, Samuel & Savannah decided they wanted to see it after all, so he ended up taking them back with him. (thank goodness for Christmas money!)
Anyway, after our first movie this morning, we came home & used Samuel's new basketball to play H-O-R-S-E at our goal in the yard. Everyone got involved. Of course, there's no picture of me playing, but that's because I was holding the camera. Since it was Samuel's ball, he went first.
Then Sarah...turns out, she's a natural. She got a basket pretty much every time she took a shot! Larry, Savannah & I all played too...but I figure you know what it looks like when people throw a basketball, so I'll just stick w/ the picture of Samuel since this was HIS new ball.
This afternoon, we took the annual Christmas day family picture. Do you like the vertical one or the horizontal?
And of course one silly one..... (love the look on Sarah's face!!!)
Larry & the older two ought to be home soon. Sarah & I had a fun night. We went to the gas station & used some of her Christmas money to get a package of sour patch straws. We came home & attempted to watch a movie she got today, but it was broken (we'll get that figured out later) so we watched the Christmas Spongebob show instead. Afterward, we got on walmart.com & used her gift card to buy something and then read 2 books before she zonked out .... in my bed.
Yawn....it's been a good day indeed.
Merry Christmas to all!!!
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