It was a great Christmas Day......it had snowed and so we were having our first truly White Christmas since 1987ish. It was what we had all wished for and were thrilled that it had happened.
Christmas morning starts out the same as usual....at the top of the stairs.
Then finding what Santa left in our stockings.....
Then figuring out which presents are whose under the tree and passing them out to everyone. Then we take turns opening them, this year we started with the oldest....you go first hubby!
All presents were unwrapped and we were all just sitting around when K noticed one more gift coming down the stairs.....
She was thrilled to finally have her 53" plush bear from Costco that she had been asking for every year for several years in fact. She was thrilled beyond belief and into tears she was so excited.
Then we sat the girls down to have them open one more gift to figure out the family gift. My hubby had been giving them clues for the last couple of days and the day before came to me and told me that M had guessed it....he didn't know how she did, but she guessed. He never confirmed she was right, but that was the first thing out of her mouth when they discovered it....
Yea, a telescope! We have wanted one for awhile, so finally we had gotten it. Of course, the one year that it is super cold and snowy AND cloudy. But we look forward to using it a lot no matter the temperature. I think it was a fabulous family gift and we will get many hours of fun out of it.
We spent the rest of the day playing, eating, dancing, reading.....
And the best part for me at least as a mom was getting to talk to T. The day before he had sent an email with the words.....have your cell phone close by tomorrow. That was it. So we had no idea what time he would call. But he texted and told us to get online and for the next 2 hours we saw this gorgeous face looking back at us......
It was the best Christmas present I could get. Ok, I would have rather had him home with me, but I know he is where he is suppose to be and so I was so happy to get to Skype with him. The connection was not the best, but it was great to talk to him, all of us together. He looked so good and he seemed happy. For Christmas, he had gone to the Dollar store and bought us each something and wrote us a personal letter. It was perfect.
My hubby got T's first badge he had at the MTC.....he said he needed one since he never got one of his own. And he found this ancient things at a garage sale.....too funny.
So happy and so blessed this Christmas season. Merry Christmas Everyone!
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