While everyone back home in Bend is enjoying a white Christmas, we are here in Florida where a cold snap of our own is going on...the high was only about 71 degrees!
Ben read part of Jesus' story from his story Bible. Then Brynna and Brighton took turns reading Luke 2.
We had a yummy breakfast of Christmas pull apart rolls.
We opened presents. The kids received gift cards from their Uncles. We also received funds for special experiences on the trip from a couple of different people. Brock and I sat down and told the kids, as we'd been saying all along, that this trip is our present. Orlando parks were our present. We want to keep our eyes open for another big fun family activity that we normally would not spend the money on and we will do it as our family Christmas present.
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Yay! A gaggle of new DS games to share. Thanks Aunt Carly,
Uncle George, Jaden & Ava |
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I love my owl necklace especially first thing in the morning. Doesn't it
set off my pjs nicely? |
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Fun lunch included in our shipping box to take up space
and make us guess at what could be in there. Thanks, Chopper! |
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Grandma Beth and the kids picked this up for Dad when she was here
earlier this month. :O) |
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Bryn's new OSU tee courtesy of Grams
and Gramps! |
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| Spencer loves his jersey! |
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| Brighton with his manly tee. |
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| Ben is number 1...also. Grams is so smart. |
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| All of us Beaver fans - Thank you, Grams & Gramps! |
After that, everyone went off into their corners to investigate and play with stuff.
Brock and I went for a nice walk around this big campground. Skylar scootered with us for the first mile and just us (and Heidi) did the almost second mile.
The kids and I went down to the playground for a little while and played around while Brock worked just a little bit since we were planning to drive out tomorrow and it would eat up a big chunk of his day on the road.
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| Big boy on the tire swing. |
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| Spencer fake posing--hovering over the ant slide. |
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| Cute Sky--fakey smile. |
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| Spencer looking slightly devious. |
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| Wow, Bryn is flying!! |
After Brock finished working, we had a great dinner of "choice" rib, mashed potatoes and broccoli. It was all pretty good if I do say so myself.
After dinner there was a bit of a Lego Batman Wii marathon until it was time for bed.
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| Dad is Batman! |
It was really hard being far away from the people we love today. I really enjoyed staying near to Facebook and seeing people's posts and pictures. It helped me to feel a little closer. We are very thankful for our family and that we are blessed to be on this journey. We are most thankful for Jesus. Merry Christmas!
It sounds like a pretty great day! All together everyone healthy! Good food and good weather:-) Blessed:-) Did you get the story cd about the McFarlane Family? I couldn't resist sending it on, about the barber who wanted to learn how to pray. Love you much and miss you often. I think I got the best Christmas present ever this year...more joy than you will ever know to get to spend that time with you. Thank you again.
ReplyDeleteWe did get the story cd. Thank you. We didn't listen to it yet. Maybe we can listen in the car on our drive today! I'm so glad that you were glad you came to visit. I really loved having you with us and it was an extreme blessing to me as well. Love you, Stace
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