First of all Merry Christmas!
For those of you I said I would send an ecard I started one... but it didn't turn out so hot.
Blogging is much better :) I figured it was pretty easy to see what we are up to via old posts.
This Christmas we were blessed to have both sides of the family together!
The only person we were missing was Garett but we got to skype him on Christmas day.
I thought I would share what a typical Christmas looks like in our neck of the woods.
It isn't Christmas without some gingerbread houses. Mum has actually bought a mold to make it that much easier.
I can remember her having a pattern that she made up and she had to cut up every little piece.
When its time for Christmas at my home I will also be buying a mold!
So glad that Mum and Dad Hassell could join in, we all had a lot of fun!
Adam building his axe yard. I forgot to get finish product pictures... got to busy with my own gingerbread house.
Christmas Eve...
Instead of reading Luke 2 (think about toddler attention span)
we acted it out with puppets my mum made when we were kids.
Thayne more interested in the camera than the puppet show.
She had an inn-keeper, Joseph, Mary, Mary with baby...
angel...
sheperds with sheep...
...oh ya and of course being pregnant i got nominated to be Mary...
...wise men...
everyone gets to participate! During our little program we sing songs. Someday (when Garett and Lauren
start having children) I hope to act out the nativity with the little cuties!
Usually after this we get to open one gift but this year we opted out. (I think we were afraid Thayne would open all the gifts!)
Christmas morn!
After eating a yummy breakfast, and skyping Elder Griffith we opened our stockings
and got everyone together to open gifts.
Thayne was the center of attention. He wanted to help everyone else open their gifts and this is the only one
of his that he actually opened!
Mama Hassell made us all aprons! The boys have matching ones! Now I will get lots of help right?
Thayne's favorite gift was tinsel. He didn't even care about anything else. He is such a easy going guy!
The best part about Christmas is a tradition my mum started.
She keeps a box wrapped in gift wrap empty with a hole on the top. The hole is just
big enough to slide pieces of paper through. The gift is marked To Jesus. Every year she encourages us
to think of something we can give to the Savior.
This year she made it like a new years resolution gift. She had us all write down gifts to the Savior
then next year she is going to give it back to us for us to do a self evaluation.
She had us put our "gifts" in seperate envelopes (don't worry she wont ever know what we put!)
I hope you had a great Christmas! We sure did!
