Happy Birthday Jesus Party!

The cake we made...all we had was cookie icing to write on it with. Oops!
The kiddos...

right before Hayden threw Sadie Jane out of his lap!

Me and my sweet reindeer.

Here she is again... didn't realize my polkadotted toes were also featured here.

Boys ready to party for Jesus.

So silly...the necklaces they are holding were Hayden's gift he picked out for Micah.

Girls...SayJ with her crazy eyes that she saves for photo ops:)

Haydee and his hat

Christmas Eve every year we go to church at the church I grew up in and then back to our house for dinner. This year I decided we would make the dinner at our houses a Birthday Party for Jesus and also let the boys buy gifts to give out at the party. With all that Micah gets for Christmas (I wont name names here) we don't have to buy him anything...but he has really struggled lately about giving and sharing and not being a gimme gimme child. So we wanted to focus on Jesus and also on giving. So I took the boys to the Dollar store at the mall (on Christmas Eve...not the best time to go) and they picked out something for everyone that would be at our party that night. Hayden definitely understood it more and that helped to instill the lesson to Micah I think. He so looks up to Hayden so that was a good tradition that I hope we started this year. The gifts they chose were quite humorous too. To name a few Budda got bungee cords and Pops got screwdrivers. All the ladies got Santa figurines...which were definitely the lesser of some evils at our particular dollar store. So prayerfully Micah will learn to be a giver and we can instill in him a sense of gratitude for what he does get.