This year, I made sure that Will knew the true reason we celebrate Christmas...and that it is Jesus' birthday. I have been asking him for months whose birthday we would be celebrating, so he knew it was coming! It was so sweet a few weeks ago when we were in downtown Gainesville riding by the Methodist church. He saw their nativity scene and began to talk about Jesus. Then he asked me, "Mama, where does Jesus live?" I explained that Jesus lives in heaven with his father, but that he also lives in Mama's heart and Daddy's heart, and a lot of other's hearts. I told him that one day he will make a choice to invite Jesus to live in his heart. He sat there quietly for a little while, and then he told me he would like Jesus to live in his heart one day...at the new house. If you ask him where Jesus will live one day, he will tell you, "in mine heart." So precious!
Anyway, we woke up Christmas morning at our house, and we had to check out what Santa had brought...let me restate...we were finally able to play with what Santa had brought. See, Will got up at 4:30 and ran in and pulled me out of the bed to show me what he found in the den. Then he got his Daddy up. We convinced him to get back in bed until the sun came up. One of Will's gifts was this cool Santa Express. He LOVED it.
Daniel was just in awe of everything. (He fell in the driveway two days before Christmas and got a boo-boo.)
Brad and I had my parents, my sister and brother-in-law, Brad's parents, my cousin, and my aunt and uncle over for Christmas dinner that night. Here are the boys with their Aunt Abigail. Yes, they are still in Christmas pajamas...they wore them all day.
Christmas Day was actually a pretty crummy day as far as the weather goes, so the boys were not able to ride around in their big toy Nana and Granddad got them until the next day. Here they are in their BMW Mini Cooper. They are too funny riding all around in it!
2011 was a wonderful year for the Rucker family. We are looking forward to a great 2012!
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