Weekly Winners Christmas Edition

We had a really fun Christmas Day. We started out with presents at our house and then Bobby made us a pancake breakfast! Mmm Mmm! Then, we went to my paternal grandparents’ house for lunch and then my maternal grandmother’s for dinner. Even though it was the first time I didn’t get to see Emily (loser!) on Christmas Day in pretty much, FOREVER, I still managed to have a jolly time. Here are the highlights!

Sophie lovin’ on her brother
she loves him

I make double appearance in the ornaments
two Jennys

Joshua crazyface
silly boy

They were having a ball playing together! It was really cute.
extreme sibling revelry

Sophie’s pretty little Christmas Dress
Christmas Dress

My FAVORITE part of this Christmas was that there was a beautiful RAINBOW (even though there was no rain) in the sky in the late afternoon! We saw it when we were driving from one grandma’s to the other and we stopped to take some pictures. When we got to my maternal Grandma’s, it was still in the sky literally across the street from her house. So I took some MORE pics. I took a ton, but these two were my favorite.

there was a RAINBOW on CHRISTMAS!!

sunshine & rainbow on Christmas Day

I just felt like this rainbow was a special gift from God, reminding me to remember that Christmas is really all about the birth of His Son, and the promise He made to provide a Savior for His people.

I hope you all had a beautiful Christmas! For more great pics, check out the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom.

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Merry Christmas!

kickin' it with the kids and our vices

Bobby took this picture of me & the kids at my parent’s house on Sunday. It cracks me up because I am drinking a Mountain Dew, Joshua’s got a sucker, and Sophie is munching on a giant cookie. (I’m going to work with her on her modesty, I swear!) We love our sugar! Anyhoo, Emily and I want to wish you all a beautiful Christmas with your families! We’ll take a couple days off and then be back to regaling you with our wild tales. In the meantime, enter our great giveaways here and here!

Merry Christmas!

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As Good a Reason as Any

This past Sunday we celebrated Christmas with my parents, my two brothers, and their families. We will see them again on Christmas day at my grandparents’ house, but we like to have a day at my mom & dad’s with just our immediate family – eight adults and eight kids.

A few of my nephews are crazy about the Narnia movies and toys, and received quite a few of the Prince Caspian battle toys for Christmas. So after the presents were opened and dinner eaten, they set up a battlefield in the living room. Two of them had received catapults and some sort of thing you attach to your wrist that shoots out plastic darts, and soon there were plastic projectiles flying about everywhere. As the battle raged, my two kiddos played with toys they had received, not minding the chaos around them one bit. That is, until a dart came close to hitting Sophie. At that point, Joshua looked up at his older cousins and gave his own battle orders: “Don’t shoot Sophie, because I love her.”

I like the way that kid thinks. I might have said, “Because you’ll put her eye out”, but his reasoning was good too.

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