Christmas

CHRISTMAS EVE
Christmas Eve day is spent cooking food for that night and prepping food for the next day. Then we head over to Bev & Larry's to celebrate Christmas with Jarret's immediate family.

Move over Betty Crocker! Jarret helped a ton with making our first ever Happy Birthday Jesus cake (bottom layer to represent the dirt of our sins, top layer to represent the blood of Jesus to cover those sins, and the white frosting to represent "Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow (Psalm 51:7):

Kendall, who LOVES to hold Jackson:

Julia taking a picture of mommy. Wow, I feel like a giant from her perspective:

No idea of the context, but pretty funny face!:

CHRISTMAS MORNING
Christmas morning is spent having a couple hours just the 4 of us, and then mid-morning Jim & Jane arrive at our house to open presents and have Christmas lunch.

Priceless! Mom was so excited about her gift, and Jarret snapped the camera and just the right moment:

Julia was not cooperating:

So it ended up becoming a family portrait of just 3 of us:

Julia sitting on her motorized Dora car (which she was scared to ride for nearly a month) holding the one and only toy we bought for Jackson. Little thief, you didn't get enough of your own presents?!

Julia was so excited to say that it was Jesus' birthday. Here she is just before cutting in to the cake:
p.s. We decided that the cake was so ugly that God was using it to remind us of 1 Samuel 16:7, "People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." Ha!

CHRISTMAS NIGHT
Christmas night we drive to McKinney to celebrate with Jarret's extended family.