For our Christmas celebrations we open gifts (from other family) leading up to Christmas, and just do stocking gifts Christmas morning (from us). We decided last year that we would, in general, start to really tone down the gifts, their 'bigness', etc. and try to focus more on giving. This year it really helped, and we did a lot of other things along the way to enjoy giving and receiving and focusing on Christ's coming.
Here are some pics of the kids opening gifts from Poppy and CC:
A truck, with lots of little trucks/cars underneath.
I asked Sophia (as a joke) what she thought the gift to daddy was. With all her drama she swung her wand around and said: "it is a SHIRT!" And it was.
Bright blue eyes!
Beautiful bracelet for moi.
David reads a book that Poppy and CC gave the kids
One of their favorite gifts: two of their favorite movies, Madeline and Swiss Family Robinson. On this day, We set it up on their bed on the ipad so Tobin couldn't reach, I wrapped a card with a picture of Madeline on it and some popcorn. A huge hit. Still in those dresses, can't you see!
