We are so blessed! I'm so very grateful for the blessings of this Christmas 2015. So much love to partake of with so many wonderful friends and family. We had a very merry Christmas Eve and Christmas morning!
 |
| The kids cleaned the house in record speed so they could open their Christmas Eve jammies! |
|
|
 |
| We had appetizers this year, and every Schauers loved the food and received the gift (my book) so thankfully! |
 |
| Kayden, and Weston too cool to look at the camera, Fiora hanging with the boys |
Christmas Day! We had a Christmas breakfast picnic downstairs of raisin buns and boiled eggs and oranges, and I gave a spiritual thought before we opened gifts. I spoke about how abundantly we are blessed, not because we have money for presents, or food and a nice home, or even because we have health and safety, though those are wonderful blessings. The reason we sing of being so blessed of the Lord is because the Savior loved us enough to atone for our sins and give us the greatest gift of all time, eternal life with Heavenly Father. The presents we give each other are to remind us of the love Jesus has for all humankind to save a fallen world.We can have perfect peace in a world of tribulation because of His love and never need fear if we stand as a witness of Him, even if we have no gifts, no food, no health, or no appreciation for the good we do. How I love our Savior!
Then the fun started. We might have gone a bit overboard on gifts this year, but the kids were like "hey you can go overboard on us any time!" They loved their presents.
 |
| We got 7 inches of snow during the night, White Christmas! |
 |
| Waiting to come upstairs and see the glorious gifts! |
 |
| Stockings are a highlight, earrings, socks, makeup, lipgloss |
 |
| Ties, rubiks cubes, and a harmonica in Weston's stocking! |
 |
| Cat pillow and stocking joy |
 |
| 6x6 Rubiks cube, he missed the girls' gifts to work on this |
 |
| something to wear |
 |
| Nothing to read, they got movies instead |
 |
| Something they want |
 |
| something they need |
 |
| Fiora got a desk chair, matches her bedspread |
 |
| Sav's favorite gift, gel nail UV light |
 |
| Jared filming the cornucopia of commercial happiness |
 |
| Weston's favorite gift was legos and he disappeared right after to work on his Avengers tower. Here's the aftermath, Fiora cleaned it up this year as a gift to us |
 |
| Our greatest gift is our children |
No comments:
Post a Comment