(written by Pam)Jake and Riley are pictured here on Christmas Eve at their Grandma Fenton's house. We had already been to church and this was right before we started to open the gifts. As you can tell, they were pretty darn happy!
Christmas morning was a lot of fun and the boys actually slept in until about 7:30 that day. We had been out late on Christmas Eve so they were tired. Riley was the first up and checked out the tree and went back and reported to Jake that there were presents under the tree and their stockings were full! We stayed home on Christmas Day and the boys played with all their new toys and never even changed out of pajamas the whole day. (Click on the photo pages link for Christmas Pictures)
We went to Ohio the day after Christmas and celebrated with the Stephens and Conway families. The boys had a great time playing with their cousins and they loved all their gifts from Aunt Linda and Uncle Bill and Grandma and Grandpa Stephens.
I think the most touching moment of the holidays for me was watching their faces as they sang "Silent Night" by candlelight at church on Christmas Eve. Their sweet faces were lit up by the candlelight and our hearts were filled with joy that they are our boys. Of course, by the end of Christmas vacation all I could think about was getting back to our normal schedule and shoving Riley out the door for school! Ah, parenthood.
Ray had a lot of fun playing with the GI Joe "Action Figures" and helping the boys build legos. Actually, he had fun with all of their toys! All in all, it was a great first Christmas with our boys.
