Janna's First Christmas

This was Janna's First Christmas. It was much different then J's first Christmas because she is so young, and with J his first Christmas was all about him. This year it seemed to still be very focused on him because he is starting to understand much more. Once again this year he was not too excited about sitting with Santa, but he was very excited about the presents Santa brought. We started off our Christmas Celebrations the Friday before when we went to Grandpa Halls house, to have Christmas dinner, and gifts around the tree. Next we went Great Grandma Patricks house on Christmas eve. The whole family was there, J loves playing will his cousins. We had a great time together as a family. This year we figured out that J can reach the Candy table...so we had to keep a good eye on him! We ended that evening with the candlelight service at church. This is one of my favorite parts of Christmas, this year the kids were in service with us so that was also special :) Grammy, Papa, Great Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Linda, Uncle Paul, Johnny, and Danny all joined us! It was great to have everyone there.

Christmas Morning we woke up, and read the Christmas story as a family. This is a tradition that we wanted to start with our family. J loves reading so he was very excited about it. He was also very excited to read about "baby Jesus". He mentions Jesus a lot these days. We then opened stocking, and took turns with gifts. We also had our traditional Christmas morning breakfast. We started the traditional breakfast when we first got married, and we both really look forward to it. Grammy and Papa also stopped by to share in the giving, they really enjoyed watching the kids enjoy Christmas.
In the afternoon we went to Joshua's Grandmas house. We had a great time with his family, and we had a wonderful time opening gifts, and eating yummy food.
Joshua's sister Missy was also there it was nice to visit and celebrate. We finished our Christmas Celebration with the yearly Christmas Extravaganza at Julie's Moms house. We ate lots of food. Played a game called rob your neighbor that we play every year, and the Big Man Santa came to visit on his way back to the North Pole. Again it was a great time with family.