papa and caroline painting ornaments in his shop
our angel ornaments
papa teaching caroline how to hammer


all the cole stockings were hung by the chimney with care :)
the kids eating christmas eve brunch
grammie, luke, andrew, sarah, caroline, susanna and papa
the fortneys
the shaws
i love how andrew is looking at papa
caroline and sarah with their diamond castle barbies
grammie with the nativity sarah drew and colored for them
papa with his grandsons (luke made him the mug he's holdin)
big bro helping lil' bro
grammie getting some help playing christmas carols
papa reading the story of jesus's birth
happy birthday, Jesus!!!
we celebrated christmas with my family on christmas eve...we had brunch (which was SO delicious), opened presents, sang christmas carols and topped it off with a birthday cake for Jesus! it is complete chaos during the present time. it starts out very organized and then digresses until wrapping paper is everywhere along with parts to toys and i've missed half of it! i love it, though, and find so much joy in being with family. how boring it must have been before the craziness of all our kids...i barely remember now!! thank you, mom and dad, for a wonderful christmas!!!!

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