Don we now our gay aparrel and more Christmas cheer

How did you feel about having Christmas on Sunday this year?

Our church was at 9:00 which made us wonder if we should quickly open presents before church, go to another church time or just take it easy and have Christmas last all day after going to church, of course.

I was in favor of the latter. 

I was grateful that the kids were understanding in waiting to open their presents.

I was grateful that we could start out our day going to church

to worship

and sing

and hear nice talks

about Jesus.

Isn't that what Christmas is about? 

So, isn't that a wonderful way to start off our Christmas day? 

By remembering Him and celebrating Him, before we gush each other with gifts and things?

I enjoyed that.

And our Christmas celebrating did last ALL day long.

That's normal for us anyway, which I love.

The kids woke up around 7:30 and checked out their stocking stuff and got ready for church.  We were over to my parents home for a Christmas breakfast before 8:00. 

Impressive I think.

Here are some after church photos in our Christmas apparel.

The Shumans.

Dad got some special recognition at church for that bow tie.  He's worn it as long as we all can remember and it's just not Christmas without it.

The handsome, eligible brothers.

Santa thought appropriate to help the Slichta family become true Blue BYU fans, especially now that we live in Utah.

After church we went back to "our" house and opened our presents. 

 (just as a side note to that I am a bit embarrassed by the overkill that the kids had this Christmas.  We've never done this much for Christmas before and I'll admit it was way too much.  But, this year was weird.  We haven't had our "stuff" since August and we still don't have it.  On a moving truck somewhere.  So, the kids really do need things.  Plus, with the school so far away and me hanging out in Salt Lake so much I found plenty of extra time to do shopping and catch all the great sales.  Before I knew what had happened we had that Christmas tree filled to over capacity. 
Next year I want to go to Mexico and serve the orphans.)

 We went back to Mom and Dad's for a fabulous Christmas dinner with everyone and then Santa somehow found us over there to do our scavenger hunt.

Always the highlight.

The night ended with games around the table.

Another glorious Christmas.