And just like that Christmas is over! We had a really great day ... just the 4 of us. Of cos I would love for us to be with family in South Africa enjoying a warm Christmas Day and heading to the beach on Boxing Day (soon soon soon!) but for now we make the best of these special times. It was so relaxing being at home. I told J I can't believe we're eating Christmas lunch in our jammies. His response 'who cares. it's just us!' It was raining and cold and well no need to get changed out of our comfy clothes!
Here's a few snapshots of our Christmas day ....
The kids woke up pretty early but we had warned them the night before that they were not to come into our room! We could hear them talking and Javan told Ria that Santa left them a letter. He loved the cookies and they were definitely on the nice list!
Zakumi also left them a note saying that it was a fun month and he had to leave to go back to the North Pole but he can't wait to see them Dec 1 next year!
Ria couldn't wait any longer and asked us to please wake up!!!
I got some quick pics with the kids and their trees ... Javan pretty much crammed whatever he could put on his tree but Ria was more picky and kept changing things out.
Ria insisted on taking my pic in front of her tree
We had breakfast and then it was time to read the Christmas story
the best part of this was when the kids got their bibles and read the Christmas story
Ria of cos didn't read but she opened her bible and told us the story and it was pretty accurate
now we're getting to the fun part
new kicks for both of them .... they were so excited. Javan really needed them and Ria has been asking for pink running shoes and pink soccer shoes so she was ecstatic (she's been wearing them non-stop now)
Javan got Ria a little purse and wallet .. . he even put a photo of the 2 of them inside it.
aaaahhhh:)
she got him a bowling set and a slinky
they got some stuff from family and friends
love the Naartjie clothes Aunty Davash sent for them!
and their big gifts ... A DS for Javan
he was speechless ... he's asked for one for a while now and he's really earned it.
An Ipod Touch for Ria (thank you Craigslist!!!)
Stocking time ...
Inside their stockings was a big surprise from my parents ... Javan read his letter and then I read Ria her's. I don't think it really hit them when they first read it but now they GET IT.
Ma and Thata are taking them to Disney!!!
My stocking had an awesome surprise for me too ....
won't bore you with the details but it was all photography related ....my day was made!
J's stocking had a planner ... he's cracking up cos he is not the most organized person but he NEEDS to be and he is constantly forgetting meetings (or remembering at the last minute) cos he just never puts it on a calender so hopefully this will help:)
while we opened our gifts, the kids enjoyed their new toys:)
The rest of our day was super lazy. We visited Norma and Kelvin that evening and had a really great time hanging out with them. They too had a lazy family day at home.
What a blessed season we have had! Our God is so good to us. Looking forward to another year filled with amazing memories with my amazing little family.
~V
