Merry Christmas

A very merry Christmas from We 5 Kings! Whew! Here’s a holiday review of what happened at the King’s castle…………..

Snow!
	Don’t you just love the snow! We’ve had so much fun playing outside, slipping around the highways and shoveling our drives and walkways. My favorite part? The dagger icicles hanging from our roof. It doesn’t get better than a white Christmas!

Christmas Eve we spent at Rich’s parents’ house with the grandparents and our BFF the Knoxes. Most of you know that Eva and I have known each other since birth (our moms were pregnant at the same time) and we really love spending time together with their family. We ate yummy food, exchanged gifts, played games, sang carols and had a wonderful time. We have a family tradition of drawing names to give a homemade gift on Christmas Eve to each other (not with the Knoxes, just the grandparents and we 5 Kings).   The gift MUST be HOMEMADE. We all really look forward to this simple gift tradition and its always fun to see what Garrett gives (a hand-painted photo frame to Grandpa D). Cassidy sewed Ben a hat, scarf, and pillow out of Dodger-printed fleece; Ben made his Dad a treat box out of popsicle sticks; I made Garrett koolaid playdoh; Rich gave his mom a picture of Garrett; Grandpa D gave Cass a photo frame with pictures of her in it; Grandma C cheated this year and gave me a printed t-shirt that said “Baby King under construction”; and Grandma B gave Grandma C hotpads that she made. Did you want to know all that? It was a wonderful way to spend Christmas Eve!

	Hooray! It’s over!

Christmas Day was a blur of ribbons and wrappings! Santa had come and that was all that mattered. We stayed home and the grandparents came to us, winter weather and all. It really is so much fun giving gifts to the ones you love. Even Baby King got two gifts! Now if only he would get here……………