We had church at 9 a.m. so we weren't sure if we should unwrap the family gifts that morning but we did and had time (barely). Here Linnea is holding up an apron that had been previously made by her great-grama and Marilyn many years ago and Marilyn gave to her now.
Gavin got a new scooter that is so much harder but more adept for stunts! He is already so awesome on it!
Micah got a new kitchen that he just LOVES! Thanks to Albert for spending quite a long time putting it together.
We had a nice church service in the morning and then came home for home made cinnamon rolls and cocoa. We relaxed while the kids enjoyed their new gifts. I finished reading Brisingr. We went on a lovely walk in which Gavin was super excited about trying out his new scooter. We had a nice Christmas dinner. We read the nativity story from the Bible and did our candle lighting activity that we do each year and watched Joy to the World. Then bedtime. It was a beautiful restful Christmas Sunday.
Friday and then Christmas Eve we spent in Coalinga. Linnea and Gavin loved riding the horses and Micah loved feeding them carrots and petting them.
Christmas Eve morning we went to see Albert's home of his young childhood out at the Ranch.
We enjoyed a breakfast at Harris Ranch Christmas Eve morning. It was so good and so enjoyable to just visit without the hustle and bustle of having the children with us.
The kids loved decorating the sugar cookies that Grama had made and then they took them to the Senior Citizen home to deliver and carol to.
Micah so carefully decorated his cookies.
I loved decorating sugar cookies this year. We made some for Linnea to pass out to her friends, monogramed.
Gavin made this cool gingerbread house.
We celebrated Winter Solstice with our friends who are originally from Iran and this celebration comes from there. It was really fun.
The kids enjoyed decorating gingerbread boys (and girl).
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