"Christmas Morning!"
Christmas Morning
2020
We were so blessed to wake up to soft falling snow. Yes, this is our home Christmas morning.
A Christmas gift to be sure!
Something I had never experienced as a child,
in sunny California.
By my generation,
the great depression was over,
the war was over.
We actually had an abundance of presents under the tree.
the great depression was over,
the war was over.
We actually had an abundance of presents under the tree.
Every Christmas Eve, kids across America begged to open one present.
They still do!
Most of us were allowed to open a gift
hand picked by mommy, before going to bed.
It was always, new jambies.
Tucked snugly in our beds,
we heard a story, and said ours prayers.
We were almost too excited to fall asleep.
Most of us were allowed to open a gift
hand picked by mommy, before going to bed.
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| Kendra 1976 |
Jessica's first Christmas! 1983.
Our girls are Christmas babies. Nothing in this world can top,
getting a Baby for Christmas!
Tucked snugly in our beds,
we heard a story, and said ours prayers.
We were almost too excited to fall asleep.
Our oldest granddaughter, Cailyn, is now a beautiful teenager!
We woke up at the crack of dawn,
running to wake our parents.
Fairly dragging them to the living room.
Always shocked to see exactly what we wanted
displayed in neat little sections.
All perfectly set up
where Santa had placed them.
My spot had a dolly
and her wardrobe case, full of cloths.
An aluminum stove with knobs and burners.
An ironing board, a baby buggy,
a bicycle, books, a locket.
Much more than I had asked Santa for.
Aunt Benny Ruth, holding my cousin Linda, me ironing, my brother Steve, and Uncle Kerry.
Christmas morning, 1956.
what I really wanted?
Long before time itself, God gave me exactly what I really wanted. So much more than I had asked him for, in my here and now, and in eternity.
No one else would ever do.
1971
Kendra's first Christmas! Our first Christmas Baby.
1974.
Kendra 1975
The only gift better than a baby....a puppy! Good job Sterling!
2020.
Almost too excited to fall asleep! Harper our youngest grandchild is 5 years old!
2020
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| A warm Florida Christmas for Conor, Jessica, Cailyn, and Harper |
The baby of the Family, Harper, holding her Christmas Hen "Jolene."
My husband Randall, my mother, and nephew Kenny.
1983
Us
2020.
Our precious family.
Caeden and his pony!
Harpers hen Nugget is ready for her Christmas choir solo.
Kendra, her first puppy, Heidi, and I, Christmas 1981.
Mama the Great teaching her first great-grandchild Conner to make Christmas Cookies!
Kendra and Conner making Christmas Cookies at Grandmother and Grandfathers house.
Caeden and Grandmother making Cookies.
Cailyn making Christmas cookies with Grandmother in Florida.
All of us making making and baking.... Christmas Cookies!
At Grandmother and Grandfathers house!
Wow! The Christmas Cookies are ready to go!
