As you can tell my last posts, the snow has been a big part of our lives these past few weeks. So it's no wonder that it also changed our Christmas plans. We had anticipated having Shawn's parents here for Christmas, but since they also got dumped with even more snow than we did, they thought it was wiser to stay home where they were safe and warm. We also missed our treasured Christmas eve service at church, but we had our own at home instead. Nolan was a little disappointed that we had memorized Luke 2 and now had no one to recite it to. Once he understood that the main reason we did it was to honor God, he was happy to recite it without a big audience. The night of the 24th was a the longest one ever to our kids, and probably to many more around the world. Nolan and Ethan were awake at 3am and were baffled when Shawn told them to get back to sleep! Which fortunately they were able to do. Christian told us he woke up at 2am, then again at 4am and when he woke up again at 5am, he just waited until he could finally get up. So at 6am the kids misery ended and we all went to peak under the tree. Christmas morning greeted us with some more beautiful snow falling outside, and we were able to enjoy a nice day with our family.
Legos are still at the top of the Christmas wish list
I'm so glad I have some of my family that I grew with in Brazil now also living in North America, and not to far from us, just north of the border in Abbotsford. They joined us on Saturday to celebrate Christmas together. Here is my cousin Jackie and her precious new little daughter, Adrianna Louise.
After all the good food and sitting around that invariably comes along with the holidays, we had to head out and get rid of some of the accumulated energy .
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