Christmas Day 2017

At the center of Christmas is the heart of God

Thankful for all the blessings we 

are given every single day.  

We woke up to this on Christmas Day. Snow is pretty when it first falls.

I sure have enjoyed each life season with my children. Christmas is sure more exciting with little ones in all their innocence though.  Pretty soon Sydna and Nathan will have their own separate lives away from us and things around here will definitely feel different. Change is inevitable and with a Godly perspective Jacob and I will do fine.

The babies garden. They're always on our minds.

Opening presents

I would have preferred to eat breakfast before opening presents but you know that the kids wouldn't have agreed to that. I sure love bacon and the hash brown casserole copycat recipe from Cracker Barrel. So yummy!!!

After breakfast Riley and Jacob wanted to go outside and play in the snow. We're a family that's not used to snow so we don't have appropriate snow attire but what the heck, Riley still got to make a snow angel.

On a walk around the neighborhood. What a beautiful flag Old Glory is!

Our street is sure perfect for sledding since we live on a hill but it's also quite treacherous when it ices over. I walked to the bottom of the hill to keep an eye on coming cars.

Throwing snowballs is always fun to do.

Sophie didn't like snow much. She was like, " get me outta here!"

Always keeping them close. Knowing that Reagan and Lincoln are safe and loved by Jesus gives me comfort.

Someone even got a present in her stocking. She was going crazy playing with that big stuffed fish.

In the afternoon we decided to venture out. The main roads were fine ... it's always the residential streets that are scary to drive on.

We went to the movies to watch Ferdinand. We liked it. It was quite funny and have since added it to our animated movie collection.

He who has not Christmas
in his heart will never find it under a tree.