Thursday, January 6, 2011

Christmas

Since Alex was two-years old, we've always baked a birthday cake for Baby Jesus on Christmas Eve and even though he is now 10, this is a tradition he looks forward to and loves....but then how can you not like a tradition that involves birthday cake?





The final product -



Then we had this cute little man stop over to sing Christmas Carrols!



Alex was so excited and by 7:00, he was ready for bed as he didn't want to be awake when Santa flew over our house. The more he started to worry, the more difficult it became for him to fall asleep. By 10:00, he was in tears because he was certain Santa had already flew over our house, discovered he wasnt't in dream land and went on to his next desitnation. He finally crawled in bed with me and I scratched his back until he dozed off - and guess what - we awoke to find Santa did stop back to the Lindner household!



And this was under the tree



But before anyone could open a present, we had to light the birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday to Jesus



Bruce's kids unsure of this .....but they went along with it. Ashley embraces these sorts of things and was the one who really dug into it and got Alex excited about birthday cake.



Then off to the gift portion of our day







Even Chewy and Kiki found their stockings were full of doggy treats and Santa brought new pet beds - can you see the excitement?




What a blessed Christmas this was for our family.