Houle House: christmas

unfortunately the wireless card in my computer has gone out. ugh.

i'm currently at my mom's uploading pictures on her mac. not sure how many posts i'll be able to get up these days. they'll probably be few and far between for awhile. i know, i know...i'm trying not to think about it. :(

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christmas eve morning we had a little family breakfast and caught up on jesse tree. the kids jesse tree present was their ornament for the year. a laminated, glittered, and cut out family picture. i did them and they totally look like a sunday school craft. funny.

this was from christmas morning, after stockings, while i was making omelets. so sweet.

we gave the kids their three gifts again this year.

frankincense- growing in wisdom

-they both got new abeka preschool books

myrrh- growing in their relationship with God

- i found some neat bible stories and devotionals on cd for them to listen to at bedtime

gold- they followed a rope out to the garage to find a doll house

and then we packed up and headed up to dave's mom and dads where we discovered that nancy had taken ed into the er because he nearly cut the tip of his finger off opening a package earlier that morning . merry christmas to him. :)

when we finally did have our christmas together it was nearly five o clock. but it sure was fun. at one point the guys were helping toby with his new race track and ian was banging on his new drum and avery was singing "away in the manger" in her new microphone and i was just taking in all of the joyful chaos. it was both loud and peaceful at the same time. :) love that.