Christmas Celebrations

Since it was our first Christmas together/ not with our own families, we decided to split up the holiday between both of our families…



For Christmas Eve we first went to Spencer's parents' home. We mostly just hung out for a bit, exchanged gifts with his siblings, and ate pizza. Before everyone sent their kids to bed, or started to leave his parents had a little devotional they had prepared for us. It was really neat. It was a talk about the three levels of Christmas. For each level they gave each of their children a gift for them and their spouses.

• The first level was that of gifts, decorations, lights, and Christmas tree. For that level they gave us homemade ornaments made by a women on their mission in Denmark
  
• The second level was that of baby Jesus. The gift for that level was a nativity set
  
• The Third level was the adult Christ. The gift for that was a cristus.
  

It was such a good talk, and very generous of them to give all eight of their children these wonderful gifts. It definitely brought the spirit into the Christmas celebration.

  The grandchildren and their gifts from their grandparents  (all the princess dresses were homemade for them, and all the big girls got home made jewelry boxes from grandpa)

 

 Some of the gang!

After spending time with the Nielson Family, we headed over to my Mom's house. Every year for Christmas Eve we get new PJ's and a new family movie. This year the movie was Despicable me. While the kids watched the movie, Spencer, my Mom and I played games. It was a pretty fun night. Before it got too late we headed on home to put out our own gifts from "Santa".

(didn't get any pics from my family :( I was too busy playing games)



Can I just say that I LOVED spending Christmas with just the two of us! Such a fun adventure! We spent the morning just the two of us, emptying out our stockings, and exchanging gifts. I definitely felt very spoiled this Christmas! I hope spencer felt the same :)

After spending the morning just the two of us we headed over to his parents to spend some time with his family. It was mostly just a relaxing afternoon with them. We ate food, hung out, and opened gifts.

Then we headed back over to my Mom's again for some yummy food, and to spend time with my family.

Over all it was a fun, and relaxing Christmas. :)\