The children woke bright and early Christmas morning and raced up stairs to see what Santa had left them. Finley was babbling in his crib so I scooped him up and went to join them. Excitement filled the air and when they could no longer contain it, they ran to wake everyone! Gifts were opened at a swift speed and I tried to capture the moment with my camera and my eyes as wrapping paper flew and shouts of glee erupted. It was hard to keep up! When the last gift was opened, Joseph began to cry wondering why there was nothing left to open. For him, the excitement was found in unwrapping the gift and it took him a while to understand that now it was time to say thank-you and play with the new things.
My Mamma whipped up a hot breakfast not long after and we all soaked up our time together. The morning was spent in our pj's relaxing and hanging out together. It was so special to be with everyone! Just before lunch we got everyone dressed warmly for skating. We headed up to the neighborhood rink for a good ol' hockey game. Some of us had skates, and some of us didn't, but we all played and it was just so great to be with everyone. With such beautiful lighting us girls kind of went trigger happy on our cameras. Thanks to Naomi and Emma for most of these pictures!
Joseph zonked out on the short car ride, tuckered from the morning events. We left him in the warmth of the van while we laced skates and began shoveling the rink. My Dad soon came to the rescue with the quad and plowed the rest of the snow off for us.
This is Camilla's third or fourth time on skates and she was so excited to try her glides and work on her balance.
Joe was a natural and only took a few minutes to learn how to maneuver on the ice all on his own! We were all so impressed with how well he was doing for his first time on the ice. He was thrilled to be skating around with everyone.
Hyrum grew out of his skates, but still enjoyed working on his stick handling and shooting pucks into the net!
Hyrum and Daddy played a little one on one while everyone warmed up!
Camilla adores these two aunties of hers and clings onto them any chance she can get. They are pretty wonderful!
My sis and I froze our fingers off taking pictures, but had a lot of fun laughing together!
It wasn't overly warm out and the children's cheeks were soon nice and rosy. They still insisted on skating and I think they were pretty warm from moving around on the ice!
We got a nice little game of hockey going and even had team captains.
Some of us got pretty into it! We had a lot of fun and I'm not even sure who won.
This guy could have hung out at the rink for the entire day shooting pucks.
Mike is pretty passionate about hockey, and I love that about him! It's always fun watching him skate around and teach our boys all about his favorite sport. I love that guy and feel incredibly blessed to call him mine!
It wasn't long before the sun started dipping behind the trees casting an orange glow all around. It's warmth soon left us and we unlaced our skates and headed home for warm drinks.
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