Christmas Eve day the kids and I volunteered at our town’s Community Support Shoppe while Andy was at work. We greeted people as they picked out free toys, clothes, housewares and lots of food! Our church helped with the free give away and it was great to just love on people. Afterwards we delivered cookies and jam to neighbors. And that evening we headed to the candle light service at church. Ben brought his battery operated flashlight candle he’d picked up at the Support Shoppe :)

We ended up having a white Christmas after all as it’s been snowing the past two days. Just enough to cover the grass but not make roads horrible.

Christmas morning before the kids were unleashed. Everyone actually slept in until 8, it was perfect! I knew we’d get there some day!

All smiles.

We read the Christmas story from Luke 2, opened stockings and then the kids started in on the presents.

Lamest parents ever…Cassidy received a booster “big kid” seat. She was SO excited though, haha!

Jack was not as excited and just wanted breakfast.

Kids got a few combined gifts like a set of magnatiles.

They’d also picked out a few gifts for daddy at the Support Shoppe. These included Christmas bracelets, tacky ornaments and a USB game controller for a windows 98 computer :D

When you’re an adult and order your own Christmas presents, you act surprised when you open them Christmas morning!

I was surprised by this awesome industrial desk lamp Andy made me. He’d been super sneaky working on it the past few weeks. The LED “filament” is all twisty and neat too.

Another present, I love stormtroopers!

Cassidy got to work building a magnatile castle.

And Ben spent some time with his new legos.

Ben’s big present was a Nintendo DS. It’s his “upgrade” from the Leap Frog video game he’s kind of outgrown.

Snuggly Christmas Colby during our Star Wars movie marathon. We got to stay home in our pajamas all day and it’s been awesome to just relax and enjoy each other’s company.

Merry Christmas!

From the Honecker family to yours!