Highlights of our Christmas season include:
- Skyping Dad
- Skyping Elder Jonas Bush
- Listening to Leslie sing while cleaning up after dinner (the sweetest angelic voice!)
- Working on and presenting the choir Christmas program
- Taking the Sacrament on Christmas
- Joy in kids faces as they gave their gifts
- And received them too!
- Traditions
- mini-Smurfs -- one of Santa's silly and awesome presents to me :)
- Texting Merry Christmas to family and friends as they came into my mind and heart
- Listening to kids enjoying gifts
- Kids' excitement about new scriptures and cases, Evelyn's songbook, Reuben's brick of Mormon book (a lego book of mormon!)
- Gideon's joy in his bike
- Technology
- Christmas photo 2015 as my phone background
- Christmas caroling with family and with elders
- making cookies with little kids
- Christmas movies
- Sharing Christmas memories on Christmas night around a candle and reading Poppa Keith's 3 levels of Christmas
- Oh ... the snowflake blizzards- our upstairs is filled with hanging snowflakes that fall down so often!
- Virtual Caroling
- Recording a Christmas song each night and sending it to dad and Elder Jonas Bush
1 comment:
This was obviously a unique Christmas with two famiy members far away. It looks like you made the best of it. It sounds like the Christmas holidays were filled with music, love and technology!
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