Christmas came and went

Well, it's 2 days after Christmas now. Tomorrow is our AnnaBrooke's birthday! She will be 4 years old! She is not that excited about it because she knows soon after she turns 4 she has to give up her pacifiers. She LOVES her pacies as she calls them. Grandma (Bucky's mom) came the Wed. before Christmas to stay with us and left Sunday. We all had such a nice time. She baked tons of sweet yummy treats with the kids which I am having a very hard time controlling my temptation to eat all of the cowboy candy in the bag! I already ate all the pecan sandy balls! Thursday night we went to a Christmas program at Champion Forest Baptist Church. It was awesome, the first part was nice, nut the nativity part was spectacular..real elephants and camels! I think the angels may have been real too :)! Afterwards, all the kids (and their parents) headed down "candy cane lane" to go sledding down the snow hill! The line was so long, we couldn't even see the hill...but it went by pretty quickly and the kids loved it! Where else can you experience snow in Houston? Thankfully, it was actually cold this Christmas here!!!!Yeah!!!! The kids even got to see snow on the front porch Christmas morning....really...well..it looked like snow...snow in seconds. Bucky and I stayed up until 1 making the snow in seconds. Yes it really only took a few seconds for the powder to turn into snow once you add the water..but you can only add water to small quantities at a time or you want make very much...there's the catch. So I went to bed pretty late that night...stuffing stockings, putting Bucky's stocking together, putting more presents under the tree. We don't do the Santa thing, but I still like to have the stockings be surprizes as well as the awe of walking to the Christmas tree on Christmas morning and seeing all these gifts you have yet to see...as I remember growing up. Christmas Eve was a neat time. We had planned to go to our church service, but the weather was so bad when we were supposed to leave we decided to stay home. Ofcourse the weather got better soon after! We had a Happy birthday Jesus cake and sang, ate, and Bucky read the Bible. Later that night, we all had hot chocolate and Bucky read a Christmas book to us.....loved it! He had to talk pretty loud over Aaron and AnnaBrooke...since they were not interested in listening. The kids and grandma all went upstairs and went to sleep. I was surprized the kids did not wake up until 8:30 that morning! I woke up to my dad's texts..they were up before us and they don't have kiddos at home!
The kids slowly came down the stairs and opened their stockings, then I got dressed and we all took turns opening gifts. Later the kids went outside to try our their new scooters and things. It was a nice, wonderful day...I even got a 2 hour nap!