On Christmas morning the boys woke up to find that Santa had come and filled their stockings (which never did get hung up this year!) and a few other gifts. Along with a few gifts from us - we kept our tradition of getting the boys each 3 gifts from us like the Bible talks of the 3 gifts for Jesus. (however, Titus did not receive gifts this year :).
1 - A spiritual gift (like frankincense) - a Bible story book each - Isaiah's was the story of Adam and Eve and Levi was David and Goliath
2 - A gift they might cherish or really want (like the gold) - board games this year - Isaiah received Operation and Levi received Ants in Your Pants
3 - Something to keep them warm (like Myrrh) - long Batman socks with grippers on the bottom (and the slippers from the day before too)
Santa brought them each a Imaginext airplane, a small transformer, a Corvette Hot Wheels car and monster truck, and a personalized Cars book. Santa did bring Titus a little teether toy and Mark a bag of mini Reese's Peanutbutter cups and a dark chocolate orange for me (I remember getting an chocolate orange several years as a kid and I usually try to find one for myself to get each year)
The boys each gave us a gift too - I got a new pair of sock monkey slippers and Mark got a Superheros T-shirt and some much needed new basketball shoes! Mark and I decided to buy a family pass to the Rec Center as our gift to each other!
Then it was time to go downstairs to see the gifts from Grandma Michele and Great Grandma Mary. A real drum set for Levi and a keyboard piano for Isaiah!!
Around lunch time we headed to my parent's house for a yummy soup lunch. Of course presents came next. Isaiah had a good time helping pass out the presents while baby Titus got passed around from one person to another!
We spent the rest of the day just enjoying each other's company and doing a craft project that got all 5 grandkids crying...I thought they would think it was fun, but they all didn't want to do it and cried when it was their turn - go figure. But we did end up with 3 somewhat cute handprint wreaths.
At least they did better for the group picture - my mom wanted to be sure we got a picture of all 5 kids together and I'd say for a 5 year old, two 3 year olds, a 9 month old and a newborn baby we did pretty good!
We ended the night with a Herky show from the boys wearing their new Herky the Hawkeye costumes that Grandpa Mark and Grandma Cindy gave the boys -- super cute and funny!!
What a Merry Christmas we had!
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