Christmas

Christmas was a blast! We spent the holidays with the Rotter side of the family. Due to weather forecasts we headed to Eatonville on the 23rd and came home the 26th. We had four fun-filled days with grandparents and cousins. Fun included sledding with Wade and Ladd, decorating sugar cookies for Santa, watching holiday movies, trying out new toys (bow and arrow for Jensen and Horse barn for Faith), playing endless hours with the boys and just being a family.

We opened gifts as a family on the night of the 22nd, but Santa found his way to Eatonville to leave lots more loot. Faith was really worried that Santa wouldn't know where to find her and her brother. When we arrived in Eatonville, Santa's elves had already delivered (straight from REI) two brand new sleeping bags for the kids. Faith was reassured then that Santa knew where they were and knew exactly what she liked since hers was pink!

Christmas morning, the parents and grandparents were up bright and early waiting for our little ones to wake. Finally about 7:45 Faith and Jensen came wondering down the stairs wide-eyed. Faith's horse barn was in plain sight, while Jensen's John Deere push lawnmower was a bit more obscure. We couldn't figure out why she wasn't running to her barn until she looked at us with her little lip quivering and said, "Mommy, Santa forgot about my little brother!" Once we showed her Jensen's gifts the squeals of delight set it. What a tender heart she has for her brother. She makes us so proud.


The kids loved EVERYTHING they got and were so sweet with all of their thank yous. They played ALL DAY with their gifts and their cousins and had such a great time just being kids. What a great day to celebrate the birth of Jesus...which was complete with Faith singing him Happy Birthday.

The next day we even got a quick visit (and more gifts) in with Uncle Dave and Aunt Karen before heading back over the snowy pass to Ellensburg.