Kyra was sick on Christmas Day. Mom took Elijah with her to the family dinner, and Chris was at work. Kyra and I played all day. Owen mostly watched when he wasn’t asleep. Here’s a picture of Kyra playing with the Barbie computer that Mamaw Velvet got her for Christmas. Notice what she was eating, a roll, cheese, ham, and some marshmallows. Obviously, she was feeling better by then.

Here’s a couple of pictures of Kyra when we were playing Pretty, Pretty Princess. I definitely picked a winner with this Christmas present. It’s right up Princess Kyra’s alley.

Since Daddy had to work on Christmas Day, we opened our presents early Christmas Eve before church. We didn’t have time to take a lot of pictures. Plus, Daddy was the one taking them, and about half of them were blurry. Daddy isn’t the supurb picture taker that Mommy is. Here’s a couple good ones, though.

DiDi (Chris’ aunt Dianna) sent us a basket of cookies for Christmas.

Kyra was ready to dig in!

You can’t really tell here, but Chris was enjoying some cookies while he studied for his test. (He was chewing when I took the picture.) Owen’s wishing he had teeth.

Elijah helped himself to quite a few.

As for me, I’m going to say that I haven’t ate any and couldn’t tell you that all five kinds are delicious and that the triple chocolate are my favorite. See, if there’s no picture (cough) evidence (cough, cough) then I couldn’t have ate any.

Thanks, DiDi!

This is a video clip of the kids in their manger scene at church last night. This was in the middle of the older kids’ Christmas play. I don’t have any still pictures, because I took the video. You can’t see Kyra’s face in it, but she’s the little shepherd girl beside of Elijah. See if you can tell why I called it “The Wandering Shepherd”.

This is a video I took of some of the teenage girls at our church singing “O, Holy Night”. It was so absolutely beautiful that I had to share with with all of you.

Here are Kyra and Elijah hard at work peeling their clementines. Elijah was so proud of himself. He kept saying, “Me do it all by myself, Mama.”