Highlights of Christmas
We started our first Christmas with the Bean side of the family 2 Sunday's before Christmas..
Nanny Bean and her Great-Grand-Kids
The Whole Family!
This if funny...
EM's first ever Christmas present... it was an elephant which she loves!
Then 2 weeks later:
Christmas Eve candle light service before we headed to Maine...
When we got to Maine Karter and Kemsen were waiting for us! EM with Karter
Sporting one of her new bows!
The two grand-girls!
All ready for bed with our new Christmas Eve PJ's
When I got up in the middle of the night to feed EM this is what I saw.. so of course I got my camera out to take a few shots! It was breath taking and peaceful...
Merry Christmas.. waiting patiently to open presents! (DH had been up since 3 am lol!)
The Bean grand-kids... already
Neena & Boppa with their grand-kids :)
I know it's blurry but Em got this awesome toy from Nan & Matthew! She loves it!!
Nan & EM in her Christmas outfit!
S playing with his new leap pad..
EM with her new "purse"
The Keniston grand-boys (EM was sleeping)
This year we did an awesome thing with our Christmas presents for the kids which was a huge hit and will be a new tradition for us. We got the idea from here..
Basically we buy presents for each child according to this old Victoria poem
Something to eat
Something to read
Something to play with
and Something they need
And then they also get three gifts based on gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Gold is something valuable or something that they really want.
Frankincense is something that can be done with or for the family. (Ex. sewing lessons with Mom, a DVD to watch together, or a board game)
Myrrh is something that they need. (Usually of higher value than the other gift.)
Frankincense is something that can be done with or for the family. (Ex. sewing lessons with Mom, a DVD to watch together, or a board game)
Myrrh is something that they need. (Usually of higher value than the other gift.)
Each gift was labeled in that way and the boys loved it!
The big hit was their Gold present which Neena & Boppa provided this year....
We had a great Christmas with both side of the family and then on Saturday we had the Big Keniston Christmas..
Dh's dd requested that he sing the song he sang in our One Voice Show...
It was great all the Cousins went outside and played!!!
Here is F he's 11 months old and snowboarding already!
D playing in the snow!
A big snowball fight with the cousins!
SK trying snowboarding..
A's turn
S's turn
I.. she was too funny. she wanted to do it all by herself!
T trying out skiing
Big T running from the snowballs!
S & F getting a ride!
D gives it a try!
The whole gang.. what a great time! Thank you Uncle Ted for getting them all out there!
What a wonderful Christmas we had....
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