We have a tradition at our house that all the kids sleep in Amanda's room in their Christmas pj's. In the morning they sit on the stair (lucky we have had stairs in all of our homes) and sing songs until Bob and I get up. This morning they were so good, they didn't start until 9:30. After the late night fixing the water line it was nice to sleep a little. You can see in this picture Zac still isn't too excited about being awake. This year Zac and Taylor wrote some original lyrics to some old Christmas tunes. It was really cute, they had copies out for everyone.
Zac's lookin' alive now. We have the kids line up by age, which until this year as also been by size. This year we got a picture by size, Amanda was passed up by two of her bothers this year.
by age....
Jake
Taylor
Amber
Zac
Ty (I couldn't figure out who was more excited about this gun, Ty or Bob)
Amanda
We had a great Christmas day. After presents we drove up to Salt Lake and handed out clothing items to homeless. We started doing this four years ago with some friends and it is something that the kids really look forward to doing. We were handing out things and Jake was in the back of the truck handing socks out. He looked over at me and said, "Mom, none of these guys are paying for their stuff." We had a little talk about why we were there and he was good. We have been doing it since he was small and I guess we never really explained to him.
2 comments:
I miss all the kids so much! I can't believe how tall Zach is!
Yay, I have your blog! I can't believe how big all your kids are. Crazy! Looks like your Christmas was great despite everything else. And you look fantastic by the way (as always)! Love you guys. :)
P.S. I'll e-mail you our address.
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