I love Christmas! I love the decorations, I love the special church services and Christmas programs, I love the family get togethers, I love having all our kids under one roof for a few weeks! I love that we get to celebrate and rejoice the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It's just a great time of year. This Christmas season was filled with lots of joy!
The boys had their school Christmas program. An improvement I saw from last year's program is that the boys both tried to sing this year instead of stand there. The funny thing is Ben worked very hard to tempt his brother to get into trouble on stage, but Jonah stayed strong and just stood there as he was suppose to!
The boys also got to be in our church's Christmas program. They were in the children's choir, but somehow they also got themselves in the last scene of the play which is what you see in this photo. Pretty good for two boys only attended the practice on the day of the program!
Fun celebrations at school for the boys.
Our church had a manger scene set up that you could use for photos. Something of interest, the last time our church did this manger scene
for photos was way back when:
Weren't they super cute?
This is Abigail and Stephen.
On Christmas Eve, we had the privilege of attending our own church's Candlelight Service at 6 p.m.
Then at 10 p.m. we attended a Christmas Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Port Washington. As you can see, it's a beautiful church, and the service had beautiful music. This was a very special way to celebrate the night of Jesus' birth.
Christmas Morning!
Boys discover Santa ate the cookies they left him!
Santa leaves a thank you note for the cookies!
We wake up to a white Christmas!
We haven't had much snow so far this winter so this was very exciting for all of us.
Abigail and Stephen take Ben to the Grinch movie. Jonah refused to go along. I think he was scared of the theater being too loud, or he just wanted a break from a certain brother who shall remain nameless...
Each year Andrew and I give the
girls tickets to a play.
This Christmas season was unique because we were in the middle of Bathroom Boot Camp. Since early December we have been intensely working on bathroom training both at school and home: pants check every 15 minutes and bathroom break every hour. Our house has been filled with the sound of timers going off to remind us of these things every 15 minutes. It's sort of driving us all nuts, but the good news is we have had the most success we have ever had with Jonah. Hoping the next few weeks we can really wrap this up and call it a success....finally!
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