I love the Sunday before Christmas. The Christmas Spirit is always so strong. While we were sitting in Sacrament meeting I looked down at my cute, little family and felt so overwhelmed with gratitude. I have so many blessings, but these five are definitely at the top of my list!
The kids were really well behaved today, which always makes church more enjoyable! I didn't even have to take Hallee out once today, that is a Christmas miracle! Hallee also folded her arms for prayer in church for the first time. So sweet! I told her it was prayer and she tried to kneel down and then gave up and just folded her arms. All of the kids got so much from their teachers. After church their arms were overflowing with presents and treats. I'm so grateful for all of the wonderful people in my kid's lives.
We had our annual family home evening where we act out the nativity. Caitlyn loves to be pregnant and then deliver her "first born son."
Love these kids!
We even got Hallee to join in this year.
After the nativity we did our scripture reading. We were all excited that we finished the Book of Mormon today! It took us almost 4 years, but we did it. We started when Caitlyn and Jonah were young and they would just repeat what we said. Now they read their own verses and Wyatt repeats what we say. We started out only reading a couple of verses a day and we have started reading more as the kids attention spans became longer. It was nice to go slowly because we would really talk about everything we were reading.
After that we let Caitlyn and Jonah give out their presents. They both took their own money and bought presents for everyone. They were so excited to give them out. I wanted to do this separate from Christmas morning so it would be more special. I hope they felt good about giving and learned that it can be more fun to give presents than receive them. I can't believe Christmas is in a couple of days. I sure love this time of year.
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