Saturday, December 27, 2008

Yay Christmas!














































We had a wonderful Christmas this year! It was great spending the whole day with my family, opening stockings, going to church, opening gifts, eating deep fried turkey, and playing games. Stevo won Apples to Apples and Mom won Monopoly. She claims she never wins that game...









We are very blessed, and our family has been so generous this year- I was also excited to see everyone open the gifts we got them (one of my favorite parts). My dad says Andre and I are the most excited about giving gifts in this family. From my parents, Odin got an outdoor climbing playcenter, and sadly it rained on Christmas so he couldn't play with it until the next day. But he loved it! Can't wait to put down some astro turf or fake grass, instead of those weeds! Odin loved all his gifts, but was especially sad when his daddy wouldn't open up the package for his polar bear fast enough! One of my favorite things, and a big surprise, was that my mom made a quilt for the baby, and Maddy made cloth blocks, all in awesome fabrics! I don't think I could have picked better fabrics myself :) I will take pictures of those later, as the quilt isn't quite finished! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Odin and the Christmas tree







After we put our tree up (about a week and a half ago), I decided to document Odin's reaction. He likes the ornaments and lights, but listened to us (gasp!) when we told him not to touch. We still have to remind him, but he is being very good about ignoring the tree. The next day I wrapped presents for the Ebert Christmas (which was on Saturday) and he was getting into all my wrapping paper, bows, etc...but once the gifts were wrapped and under the tree, he ignored them. Yay! It was kind of strange having Christmas so early, and not on Christmas Eve. Odin got some fun things, including a zoo membership! And some of my favorite gifts were girly scrapbooking stuff (ive been waiting for this!) and a pedicure gift certificate.






Adam and I discussed what we want to do for our kids in the future for Christmas. Since Odin is still young, and we don't have money, we are doing a stocking and one gift. Eventually we plan to buy 3 gifts per child, to echo the 3 gifts given by the wise men to Jesus. I am trying to think of other ways to focus on Jesus as well, in all the different aspects of celebrating Christmas. I, however, don't like the idea of birthday cake for Jesus- I mean, who really likes birthday cake? But, I do like the idea of unwrapping baby Jesus as the first gift. We also do caroling with church, the Christmas program, reading the story of Jesus on Christmas morning...among other things. Anyway, so now half our Christmas is over, and sadly I forgot the camera and took zero pictures. Waiting for my mother in law to start emailing some out! :)