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| Papa reading the Christmas Story out of his Bible. Jacob, Evan, Max an Evan in the picture |
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| Evan, Jack, Rody and Isaac |
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| Isaac and Evan |
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| Max, Evan, Jacob, Eli and Peyton |
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| Peyton, Hailey, Jacob, Isaac, Evan and Eli |
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| Hailey and Isaac. Isaac got Hailey a notebook for Christmas and Vikki and he had taped an I tunes card in the middle of it. She loved that! |
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| Eli and Peyton |
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| Adam |
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| Evan, Eli, Jack and Max watching Jacob open |
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| Eli |
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| Isaac and Jack. Rody, Bruce and Kenzie in the background |
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| Max, Evan loving his gift and Jacob |
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| Max and Jacob |
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| Kenzie and Jacob |
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| Eli and Peyton |
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| Adam and Kenzie |
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| Max, Evan, Jacob , Eli, Peyton and Isaac |
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| Peyton opening her gift with everyone watching |
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| Max, Evan and Jack opening their lego motors |
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| Peyton |
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| Evan was so excited when he opened this baseplate for legos. So wonderful that something so little could make him so happy. All of our grandkids are so thankful and happy for whatever they get. |
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| Jacob, Eli and Adam opening their nerf flashlights |
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| Eli, Jacob, Adam, Evan |
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| Isaac and Peyton |
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| Peyton |
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| Max |
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| Hailey |
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| Rody took this picture! Love it! |
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| Bill got me some boots! Well they looked super big....it ended up that he told me they were his. He did have a fit bit watch in the box for me though. We got a good laugh! |
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| Beautiful hat and mittens that Kimmy knitted for me out of Blanch's wool |
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| Opening Isaac and Peyton's gift they got me |
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| Melissa and I opened our gift that Hailey made for us at |
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| We loved them! She did a great job making them. Treasures! |
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| Isaac watching me open his gift |
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| Me opening my beautiful mug Kimmy made for me. I love it and I needed a big mug for my Ninja Coffee Bar |
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| Me with my Angel from Bruce and Melissa. I was so surprised! They looked all over and then went to Bronner's and found it. They company isn't going to make them anymore. I love my Nativity! |
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| Kenzie and Me |
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| Jared and Kimmy |
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| Bill sitting in his canvas camping chair Vikki and Rody got him |
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| Peyton, Eli and Adam |
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| Eli, Adam, Peyton and Jacob |
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| Kenzie opening her beautiful mug from Kimmy and Jared |
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| Letter from Vikki explaining the picture below that she made for her dad. It was so touching when she gave it to him. |
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Bill wit h the beautiful painting she made for Bill.
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| Bill opening a huge gift from Kimmy, Jared and boys! I wonder what it could be???? |
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| We sure got a good laugh. It was the lamps no one wanted and Bill put them in Jared's van without him knowing. Bill got them back for Christmas. Such a good one on Bill! |
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| Me opening my beautiful picture calendar that Vikki always makes for me. I love my calendars...she has been doing this for me since 2010. |
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| Mocha decided she needed on my lap. Peyton is watching papa open his gift |
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| I stuck a picture plaque of Bill and I that was taken the day we were engaged. I put it in the box so it would throw him off and he wouldn't guess that it was only gift cards in the box. He was so funny because he said he never saw it before. It had been on my dresser for many years and I had moved it a couple of years ago upstairs on that dresser. |
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| Kenzie opening her journal, pens and tea lights from us |
Hailey and some friends at school did worship specials for the family service at church. Hailey sang with the girls in red
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Kenzie so cute with all of her stuff from Aunt Kimmy, Uncle Jared and the boys
What a wonderful day celebrating the birth of Jesus with our wonderful family he has blessed us with. Bummer that Kimmy, Jared, Adam and Eli had colds, but we still had a great day. Wish they would have felt better though. Everyone came at 9 a.m. Kimmy brought pies, and Vikki had made the mashed potatoes and orange jello salad. I put the potatoes in the roaster oven with the cheesy potatoes I made to keep warm. After that, w listened as Bill read the Christmas Story. That's one of our favorite Christmas Traditions! The kids always listen so good and are happy to hear it. Then we prayed and the guys all passed out the gifts. The kids all did their exchange first and it was cute to see what they picked out for each other and how excited they were to get each other's gifts. They always draw names. After that we started with the youngest and worked up to the oldest with one person opening at a time (unless the kids were getting the same thing, then they opened those together) We all loved what we got and we had some great laughs too!. The biggest laugh was when Bill opened the lamps from Kimmy, Jared and the boys. One was cracked and no one wanted them when Bill took them from our friend Christine. Bill sneakily put them in Jared's van and Jared discovered them when he got home. Well they wrapped them and Bill was excitedly opening the big gift, when he realized it was the infamous lamps. Bill tried to put them back in Jared's van at night, but Jared found them and he put them in front of our outside nativity. Bill and I both got a good laugh when he found them. Should have taken a picture. Chuck, Sue, Roy and Marie came to eat dinner with us. They don't have children so we wanted to include them because they are like our family. We ate a yummy meal, and then rested for a while and had our dessert. We practiced with our google thing Vikki, Rody and the kids got us. You ask it questions, and it answers or tell it to sing happy Birthday and it does. I can play my worship songs through it too. It can be set up to tell it to turn your tv on or lights on etc. You can even get a thermostat that is compatible so you can turn your heat up or down from your phone wherever you are. So neat! We had a very relaxed enjoyable day. THANK YOU JESUS FOR COMING TO EARTH TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS AND GIVING US ETERNAL LIFE!! |
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