The Russo's

Christmas Eve lunch was with all the Russo's Later we were at Maw Ella's house . She gave the boys camouflage overalls.  We opened presents at Nana & Papa's  The kids told us weeks before that they wanted to run through paper on Christmas morning. so we surprised them that morning. Christmas Day pictures  The kids sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and had cake  We went to Nana B's that night. We had a game for them to play that revealed a surprise. It's a little long.  "We are going to Disney"  We told all the kids that the whole family would be going to Disney in February. They didn't get it at first, so we had to help them get excited. Hudson was the most excited and then we learned later that he over heard Josh telling someone. He kept it a secret for a few weeks! 

The kids helped decorate the tree. We changed the decor this year to a woodland theme. They wanted camouflage, so we comprised on woodland creatures. The kids had a Christmas concert at school on December 8th   We couldn't see Hudson too well from our seats, but Gianna was right in front. They all did very good.  We went to a walk through nativity at University Baptist. They had several live animals in the scenes.  Their favorite part was the petting zoo. They had bunnies, baby goats, sheep, pony and pigs. They had food to hand feed the animals. We made and decorated a mini gingerbread village. I didn't realize that the icing wouldn't be dry in one night, so we put them together and decorated the next night. Hudson could assemble the houses by himself and he did a good job!   It was messy!  They each had two houses to decorate  Then they pretended to eat them The kids had a Chrismas program at church....