I have adopted the weekend before Christmas as the time to get together at our house for Christmas. My hope is that I won't interfere with Santa and other gatherings. One of the best messes in the world in the mess created in the living room while opening presents!
Maddie and Lillian helped continue the tradition of sorting all the presents into piles for everyone to open the next morning following our Christmas breakfast. Tinker (their sweet little elf) appeared magically to oversee the festivities!
We get up bright and early every morning when the little ones are here, and this morning was no exception. We could have eaten around 5, but we waited for Uncle C, Aunt Taylor and Papa to arrive. Reed has become very serious about his Alabama cap and his John Deere boots!
For the second year, Maddie read the Christmas story to us before we opened presents. This year totally out of the blue, Reed looks at Papa and tells him to "shhhh"! We got quite a kick out of it!
Ready to jump in and open presents! This year among other things, the babies got trucks, tractors, a fitbit and a rainbow castle!
Soon we were outside riding the new tractor (Now I can give Jean's back!), and shooting the bow and arrow!
It's not what's under the tree that matters, it's who's gathered around it!
Next up-Christmas at Caleb and Taylor's house!
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