Christmas Re-cap

So, I can tell that we have jumped into the Christmas holidays as I haven't blogged since the kids got out of school! We have thoroughly enjoyed the two weeks we have had off though. It has been full of many many memories and special moments!

Perhaps the most special moment for me was Christmas Eve. We went to church for the service there which was beautiful and wonderful - so special to remember Christ's birth with our church family. Following that, we came home to a crock pot of chilli! This is definitely going to be a Christmas Eve tradition at least when we are home! Then we sat around as a family, just the 6 of us, and talked about what gifts we could give Jesus this next year. So precious to see my kids really ponder what they wanted to give Jesus in terms of their attitudes and service.

Christmas Day was filled with fun and laughter and kids getting us up at 4:45 in the morning to see what Santa brought! Wasn't too bad - once I woke up a bit! LOL.

The day after Christmas, we went to Pagosa after church to celebrate with Nana and Papa and Joel's sister and her family! I love having the cousins get together...even if it was really loud! Monday we went back to Pagosa for more fun with the cousins!!!

Wednesday - the cousins (and parents) came to our house!!! Yippee!!! We had been praying for them to get some snow to play in - we got some and more! From Wed morning to Thursday night - we got over 2 ft of snow at our house!!! The Texas crew was a little in awe I think but they jumped in with sledding, snowball fights and even helped shovel some!

Speaking of the snow - it has snowed so much and the roads are so bad, that they are staying an extra day and won't go home til tomorrow! So there is our Christmas week in a nutshell - here are a few pictures...