The Empty Bookcase: Snow on Christmas!

Here in Texas it doesn't snow very often. The days before Christmas were warm and breezy and we had no expectation of seeing snow this year...for the first time in our lives. We were slightly disappointed but had finally come to terms with the idea.

Christmas was great! We stayed at home

This is us on Christmas Eve in our Jamies from Mom and Dad

This is the letter Firbie wrote to Santa...

Oh the presents!!! When you have 9 people living in a house and everyone is trying to be good and give something to everybody and the older ones are trying to teach the younger ones what the Christmas spirit is, there is a lot of presents. From mom and dad we each got a new outfit, a book, some big item (Firbie got a Bow and Arrows...i'm extremely jealous!), some socks, and some other stuff I cant remember.

The kids drew names out of a hat in September!!! I had Seth, I gave him two Nerf guns. Firbie had Indy, She gave her the pair of boots in the picture above. Ella had ME, she gave me an orange vest that I adore and a white shirt. Eden had Ari, she gave her the superman shirt that shes been asking for for months! Seth had Ella, he gave her a jean skirt. Indy had Eden, she gave her a remote control whale that was named Orcky!

Ok now I think it's about time to tell you that...It snowed on Christmas day!!! It was a miracle, nobody was expecting it, but it actually snowed! We went a little crazy :)

This is the hat Seth got for Christmas

Ari went outside bare foot :P crazy girl!

SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!

Aren't we just adorable?!

Oh, and I forgot to mention every year for Christmas we used to get an ornament for Christmas from our Grandparents, but...because we moved we don't get them anymore so Santa gave us one instead! This one is mine! Its pure gorgeousness...thanks Santa!

I decided to join Ari on the bare feet...its just so much more fun!

Merry Christmas (7:00 AM) its a little early for me. Especially because Firbie kept me up WAY to late trying to (don't tell the little's!) convince Seth and Indy that Santa is real. Ari and Ella would go outside, start ringing bells, then I would open the window and exclaim "Hurry come over here!!! Do you hear that? Its Santa flying over the world! Can you here them?" They totally fell for it! But I was sleepy.

We had an awesome Christmas dinner, hopefully a new tradition that we call a shepherds dinner.

Earlier in the week Ari and I spent 6 hours making oil lamps for the whole family (the center of the picture above). For dinner we put a slice of ham, chunks of cheese, grapes, pittas, and Eden set up a bowl of wine (grape juice) with a pitcher to drink out of. We ate dinner while dad read "The other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke