Christmas

Hooray for Christmas! We did our very own Jones family Christmas for the first time this year. It was lots of fun! Ruth was so excited for Santa to come on Christmas morning. On Christmas Eve, we had a simple dinner of olives, cheese, crackers, pickles, and bread. The fun part was eating it by candlelight (an old tradition from my family when I was growing up.) While we were eating we talked about the story of Christ's birth. After that we all got to open one present (PJ's). Ruth wouldn't hold still for a picture so I made her lay on the floor. We had a lot of fun playing Santa and setting up Christmas for the kids. Christmas morning was early but fun. We got up at about 6:15 AM and went to wake up Ruth but she was already sitting up in her bed waiting for us to come and get her. She was very excited to find her toy kitchen with a toy phone. Gareth was pleased to open up a booster seat and loves eating dinner with the whole family. Jonesy and I were very happy to get a GPS device from my parents. We are going to start geocaching very soon.