Oh Holy Night...

One of my most favorite things about Christmas is the Christmas Eve Candlelight services we have at church! They are so special...one hour of reflection, carols, prayer and wishing your friends and family a Merry Christmas!

The four of us walked up on stage to open the service.
Afterwards at home, we worked on a gingerbread house...super sweet fun! I vaccumed up the mess to ready ourselves for our sweet friends, Lloyd and Diane Nott. They wanted to come over to bring the children gifts. I am so thankful for their thoughtfulness towards us, especially during times like this with us being so far away from family. They try to fill in that gap of "grandparents" and we help Diane with her missing her daughter and 2 grandkids the same ages as our kids in Tennessee. God is SO good to us!!!
Christmas Morning!!!
The first gift Noah opened was these shoes, so every gift after that he would point to and say "shoes". Awe! He put these on right away and wore them half the day! After the kids opened their gifts Liliana said "this was really nice of you guys"...so sweet and simple and grateful! Awe!
We spent a lot of the day right here on the couch! There was about a straight hour that all four of us were on there together! Liliana and daddy all tuckered out!

In the evening we made an attempt to visit with Grandma and PawPaw over the webcam to open the gifts they sent the kids but I could not get it working, so we did a video of it!

Liliana loves the dinosaur that Noah got from them! Thank you for all of the perfect gifts you sent...you sure have that grandma's touch! xoxox!

We had a wonderful day! The kids watched Rudolph and Frosty for the first time and we enjoyed just being together and listening to lots of Christmas songs all day! Honey baked ham and all that goes along with it filled our tummies and the Love of Jesus filled our hearts!

As daddy said in a text a few minutes ago "this was the best Christmas ever"...awe!

My favorite moment of this Christmas would have to be this one:

Tonight as I was tucking Liliana into her bed and saying "goodnight" I asked her what her favorite part of the whole day was and she pointed to her new dolly next to her and said "this doll is my favorite and this dog is my favorite and baby Jesus is my favorite gift"... Hearing her say this was my favorite gift!