Random Christmas Photos

Teacher Christmas gifts of homemade toffee.
For his classroom teacher I also got a "Chamber Bucks" gift certificate.

We made salt dough ornaments.

We did the "adopt a child" thing this year in effort to get the kids to think about GIVING on Christmas instead of just getting. We adopted a child through the Friendship Baptist Center in DSM. His name was Fernando and he was 7. We went shopping and dedicated our whole night to him. It took awhile, but Grant finally started to think of Fernando and other "not as blessed as us" people. He even had the idea that we should buy someone a car that didn't have one. Oh, how I WISH we could do that!!!! This was a good start, but we are already thinking of how we can do better next year b/c as much as we tried to guard against the "commercialism" of Christmas, it still happened!
Anyway, this is them helping to wrap Fernando's presents.

Our tree.

The kids' nativity set.
They LOVED playing with this and even Brynna can tell you who all the people are!