Our Family Christmas

We had our own family Christmas tonight on Christmas Eve.  Casey worked today and the rest of us hung out, played games, and had lunch at Olga's with my parents, Aunt Elaine and Karen.  The kids also did a little sledding at my parents' house.

Casey was able to leave work by mid-afternoon, so we let the kids open their gifts this afternoon.  Then we had Casey's delicious beef roast for dinner and went to our church's candlelight service.  It was a beautiful service of scripture and singing Christmas carols.  Tomorrow we are looking forward to spending Christmas day with Casey's family.

Peter was excited about his Verlander jersey!

Peter's gifts:
Jersey, Lego set, Wii game

Watch out... these girls have girly Nerf guns!

Esther's gifts:
Knitting machine, Nerf gun,
Decorate-your-own bulletin board kit

Miriam's gifts:
Outfit for her doll, Nerf gun,
Fuzzy purple reading pillow

The kids have been really into doing Perler beads lately
so we got them a bonus gift of some new supplies
(beads, templates and an idea book)

Peter gave us a sweet gift that he made in school.
They used a hand print to make snowmen on an
ornament and attached a little poem to it.

Unfortunately we have to wait until after break to get Esther and Miriam's gifts that they made for us in school due to the snow day on the last day before break!