I figured since it is the last day of February, it's a good time to finish up with Christmas pictures.
We don't have stairs in this house to have all the kids sit on for our Christmas picture, so against the wall it was!
Clarissa's gift from Santa. She had been asking for this game for months, and then the week before she changed to wanting a Diego Video Game. We just told her Santa knows best, and she was still very excited when she opened her game, and loves playing it.
We found these slippers for Clayton, and thought they were so fun. They love Dinosaur Train, and these are Tyranosaurus Rex slippers. It's fun to watch him pretend to be a dinosaur in them.
Enoying her new toy! It was a lot of fun that Sarah was so involved in her first Christmas. She loved unwrapping the presents, of course, and enjoyed making a mess with the wrapping paper.
One of the biggest highlights seemed to be the stockings, to see what kind of treats and small box of sugared cereal (a tradition from my family) that they got.
We had a fun Christmas, and enjoyed celebrating the birth of Christ. Our favorite tradition that we do, which I don't think I took any pictures of, is celebrating advent. The four Sundays before Christmas we have a special message, light our advent wreath, and have a special treat. Clarissa, especially, loves this, and looks forward to it for the several weeks in November, even before it starts. Actually, this year she started talking about it back in August when we first moved in, and invited our upstairs neighbors to come over for one of the times. I am so happy that one of Clarissa's very favorite Christmas tradtions revolves around Christ and not the presents, (but she still loves those too of course!)
