Since I am super behind on blogging anyway, I will be blogging about Christmas this week! Yay! We had some technical difficulties, but now that we have the pictures on the computer, I can start my catch-up blogging…
A week before Christmas, we had our church Christmas party. It started out with different activities. In this room, the kids listened to Colene read Christmas Oranges – I love that story! Elora and Oliver LOVE stories, so they were completely enthralled the whole time.
Marion noticed the baskets of oranges everywhere and snuck up to the front to help herself.
I love how excited my kids are to get oranges. They were all really happy to have an orange to snack on after hearing the story. I made Oliver a Christmas bow tie, and he loves to wear it. He decided to dress up for the party and wear his new tie – and also to bring his scriptures so he could be a missionary.
Our next activity was to sing Christmas carols, but the kids mostly just ate oranges and enjoyed listening to other people singing. I love that Elora decided to wear fairy wings to the party. Because you can’t party if you’re not a fairy.
Marion couldn’t wait to eat hers… We also got to watch a live nativity, which was acted out by the choir and the young men and women. They did a great job, but I had to miss part of it because James was not interested in having me sit down… I ended up walking back and forth in the hall until he went to sleep.
There was a really great roast beef dinner, and Chris… well, he doesn’t like paper plates or plastic silverware. So he brought his own fork from home.
Oliver’s primary teacher gave him a present, and the kids were so excited to open it. The first Christmas present of the season!
His teacher, Bridget, made him a blanket which he LOVES along with a matching hat and scarf that Oliver told me “will keep me VERY warm when it is cold outside!!!”
Santa came to the party. Marion did not seem real excited about it, but went to see him anyway because she knew he was going to give her a treat. Look how excited Elora is though! Elora got so nervous when it was her turn though, that she forgot to tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas. She kept wondering if he would still know what to get her. “Maybe his elves can tell him? Or maybe he just already knows?” I told her to write him a letter, but she said, “I think he already knows what I want because he is magic.”
Marion was so happy about her treat bag that she dumped it all out on the table and picked all the M & Ms out of the popcorn. We put all the popcorn back in the bag for her to take it home… where she proceeded to dump it all out on the carpet in her bedroom.
Here is Oliver in his new hat and scarf! So cute. We walked home in the snow – it was coming down pretty hard – only to find that our power was out at our house. We were supposed to be leaving for California the next day. We gathered up the kids, put them all to bed with their flashlights, grumbled about the fact that I couldn’t vacuum up the popcorn crumbs in Marion’s room with no power, and as our house got colder and colder over the next couple hours with no power, we packed up in the dark and started driving for California. It was a long night and by the end of it, Chris and I were so tired that I think we were switching drivers every 45 minutes… but at least we were out of the cold and didn’t forget too many things that we had wanted for the holidays…
