Christmas Day

Merry Christmas Everyone!!! I'm so happy that such a long time ago God sent his Son down to Earth to live among us. He gave us such a wonderful thing to celebrate - Christmas! We celebrate the birth of Jesus - but I know the holiday has become very commercialized about gift giving, trees, stockings and Santa that we often forget the true meaning of the holiday. And I'm not ashamed to say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays. I vote we all leave Christ in Christmas! I prefaced my post with that, but now I want to share in photos the joy I got from opening all my gifts! Don't worry, I gave both Mom and Dad each a gift. Dad helped me buy Mom hers, and vise versa. And I had just as much joy helping them open their gifts from me! The first thing we did was open our stockings. Last year I just had a generic stocking (Jude used it this year) but this year I had my very own cross stiched stocking made my Grammy! It has my name on it, and shows the Nativity scene of baby Jesus's birth! But then Mom told me to open it, that there might be something inside. I didn't know what she was talking about - it's just a big sock...

But whoa!!! There WAS stuff in there!!! WOW!!! I got a whole bunch of cars!! My favorite!! And I got his crazy toy called a Slinky. It's amazing! I don't understand how it works, but it's sure fun to watch!After everyone opened our stockings, we got to rip open all those presents under the tree that have been tempting me for so long. Everyone laughed at me, because I would rip open a gift and then rush over to Dad to have it take it out of the box for me!Thank you everyone for all the gifts you got me! I have special toys that mean a lot to me, I'm sure you know which one (the one you got me of course!) After we ate breakfast and cleaned up, we went back to Aunt Kathy's house for a big Christmas dinner. I got all dressed up in my pretty Christmas dress! Don't I look adorable?? (I was checking out Katee, because I thought she looked adorable!)