Christmas Morning

WARNING!!! THIS POST IS LONG!!! We had to wake up the kids this year to let them know santa had left them presents under the tree. Since we had Shane it is tradition that my parents and Del's parents come over and watch them open their santa gifts. The kids love having all the company. Del's brother came this year and got to watch also. Del made breakfast. Here are pictures from the morning.

Christmas Eve

Christmas is absolutley my favorite holiday of the year. Since Del and I have gotten married we have started alot of different traditions especially now that we have two amazing kids to share this holiday with. Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to get a real christmas tree for christmas and I wanted to cut it down every year with the kids, well we did that for a few years until we discovered Del and Shane have major allergies. So that tradition is out the door. The next tradition I always wanted was to go to candlelight service at church. So now that Del and I have found this amazing church in Forney ( C-Life) we have started our new tradition of Christmas Eve candle light service and the kids love it. After church we go home and make cookies for Santa and read a book or watch a movie until the kids are asleep. Here are pictures from Christmas Eve at The Stracner's.

The tree

Shane's Santa's presents

Brooke's Santa's presents

2009 CHRISTMAS PICTURES

Here are our Christmas pictures for 2009. Its really hard to get the kids to sit still and really get a good picture, but this year they did great!!! David did a great job and the kids love him. We had to do them late in the month cause of the weather but they turned out great, I am super happy with all of them. I hope you all like them.

Christmas Party

I decided to go and join Shane and his class for their Christmas party again this year. I bought some cookies and Shane handed them out and then he wanted to get some pictures with his best buddies in his class. We had a great time.


All his cookies

His class

Shane and Dylan

Shane and Tyler

Shane and Andrew

Shane and his snowman

I can’t believe Christmas is already here!! Every year after Thanksgiving we get all our Christmas movies and sort through our favorites and start watching them. We absolutely love Christmas movies! We all have different favorites. Here is our top 5 Christmas movies.

1. A Christmas Story - This is Del's favorite by far. I love this movie but not my absolute favorite. The kids are still kind of young to understand but they think its hilarious when Ralphie gets his tongue stuck on the pole. Shane loves the part when he gets his Red Ryder BB gun. He wants one so bad but we are going to wait a few years on that one.

2. How The Grinch Stole Christmas - Now this one is my absolute favorite. Brooke really doesn't like the Grinch but we just skip the scary parts and she is just fine. Shane watches it every night before bed. Both versions are perfect for Christmas.

3. The Santa Clause - This one comes on TV alot during the Christmas holiday and the kids love it. Shane thinks Tim Allen is so funny and really believes he is Santa. Brooke likes when Santa delivers the presents. It is just a magical Christmas movie, it makes you believe there really is a Santa.

4. The Polar Express - Ever since this movie came out we have to watch it. I had the book growing up and passed it down to my kids. It's a magical movie. It looks so real and the kids love the train and the Santa at the end. Brooke always thinks that Santa is coming to our house when he leaves at the end.

5. Home Alone - Who doesn't love Home Alone?? We love this movie, we could watch it over and over again and never get sick of it. I always wanted to stay home alone for Christmas just to see what would happen and imagine all the things I could do, but now that I am older I realize the real meaning of Christmas and couldn't imagine staying home in the world we live in today. It's just not Christmas without watching this movie though.

Snowman

This year in kindergarten they made snowmen out of paper plates. We all did it together as a family and had so much fun. Shane picked out most of the items, Brooke wanted to candy on the whole thing....lol This is what it looked like.