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Christmas Day Our Christmas Day was packed full of celebration! The morning started with our family Christmas at our house. After we wrapped up here we drove down to Centralia to celebrate with the Smith side. On our way home from Centralia we popped in to Kevin's parents house to say Merry Christmas. Our evening ended with us joining our neighbors for dessert at their house. The kids (and parents =) were exhausted by the end of the day, but we thoroughly enjoyed celebrating the birth of our King with all of our family and friends. Morning: Our Family Christmas Taylor's photography Hailey received a Barbie airplane. It is HUGE! As you might be able to tell she can barely lift it. Taylor received a new bike! No training wheels.... we'll have to work on that. Afternoon: Smith Christmas Amanda and Jonah had a very exciting announcement - they're ENGAGED!!! Jonah proposed on Christmas Eve and although a date isn't set yet they're thinking sometime this summer. We...

Christmas Eve Morning: Christmas with The Moberg Family Helping Aunt Angela open her presents Christmas Cheer The cousins opening gifts together Elliott Night: Christmas with the Florek Family The girls had a blast entertaining us by singing Christmas Carols on "stage." Sherri with Micah and Laura with Kiley We had a couple surprise guests this year, Santa was one of them. Here is Rick on Santa's lap. The Great-Grandkids with Grandpa John oops I mean Santa Claus

Christmastime is here! We have been busy! FYI - I just made SEVERAL blog posts so keep scrolling down. The Christmas posts are in order of oldest to most recent. We have been blessed to celebrate the Christmas season in many ways this year.

Scrooge This year we took Taylor and our neighbors to see Scrooge The Musical. Everyone loved the performance! Taylor absolutely loved the singing and dancing! She told me has to be in it next year. =) The girls in their Christmas dresses ready to go! Hailey went to a Christmas service Grandpa and Grandma Moberg's church.

Gingerbread House!

Second Annual Cookie Decorating Party! We had a great turn out this year! We had about 30 people including kiddos. Our house was full of kids and adults covered in frosting. This year we voted for the best decorated cookie. Our neighbor, LouAnn, took 1st place. She may have had an unfair advantage having been a cake decorator in the past...

The 1st of many Christmas gatherings Our first gathering was at my mom's house. The kids put on their 3rd annual Christmas Story play. This year Micah had his debut starring as Jesus! He was his happy self smiling away in the "manger." Hailey was our bashful angel, Taylor was Mary, and Zachariah was Joseph. Kiley will be making her debut appearance next year. Kiley opening her first Christmas present EVER! Micah was a little confused on how to open his first Christmas present. ; ) First he thought he should open everything with his teeth... He thought the paper was for snacking on too... Then Daddy taught him to rip it open and he turned into a champion gift opener! He loves the sound and feeling of crinkling paper. My new way of doing things this year is handing the camera off to Taylor at large events and letting her be our photographer. It's fun to see what she comes up with and they are usually fun pictures! The rest of this post is courtesy of Taylor! Jonah! ...

Dinner #2 Our tummy's were thankful that we didn't squeeze both dinners into one day! We had another delicious turkey dinner with the Moberg side a couple days later. Micah enjoying the mashed potatoes! Aunt Angela and the girls Sadly these pictures turned out too dark. Taylor enjoys posing for pictures these days. =)