On Sunday Pastor Jimmy invited us to come to their house around 1:00-2:00 P.M. on the next day...Christmas eve! Our family was very Excited...but I knew that Jesus would HAVE TO HELP ME if I got everything done that I wanted to get done before going to their house.
You see, I had cut out matching skirts for Gaby, Sarah, and Mary, but didn't have Gaby and Sarah's sewn yet. And I wanted to make some PJs for Elijah for Christmas too...all before we went to their house.
So, when Phillip got up at 4:20 A.M. on Christmas eve to bake our ham, I got up, put on some Bible to listen to, and started SEWING as FAST as I could!! Jesus helped me and I got it ALL DONE!
~Thanks to Aunt Laura (and Sharon H.) sending us some fun Lightening McQueen material, I made Elijah some jammy pants for Christmas. ~
~I didn't have enough material to make a Jammy shirt, so I found this red shirt in his closet. But when I pulled it out to really look it over, it has some STAINS on the tummy! So, I said to Sarah, "Look at this shirt and tell me what we can do to HIDE those stains?" I told her, "I want to cut out cars and put on it, but we'd have to place them where they would hide all of those stains!"
A couple minutes later Sarah said, "Mommy, just make a road and put cars on it... to hide the stains." I said, "Sarah, that's a Great idea! We'll make the road out of jean, and use yellow ric rac for the line down the middle." So, I grabbed some jean and Phillip cut out the road and all the cars while I was finishing Elijah's jammy pants. Then I quickly sewed it all on.
We were so happy at how Jesus helped it turn out.~
~I don't normally give gifts to our kids on Christmas eve...so they have more to open on Christmas...but this time I gave these to Elijah at Pastor Jimmy's house...And Elijah is THRILLED with his new jammies!!~
~We made a jello cake to take to their house and put a Christmas tree on top.
We took our big ham that Phillip made to share with them too, and it turned out YUMMY! I made a big batch of biscuits to take, for they love my biscuits. I also took lots of Christmas tins filled with our homemade goodies like peanut butter and peppermint fudge, candied almonds, etc. to munch on during the afternoon/evening.~
~Pastor Jimmy and Sis. Farly made us a DELICIOUS traditional soup called "Ajiaco" which has yummy chicken, corn, cream, etc. in it and they serve it with a nice slice of Avocado. It was YUMMY! She served fresh YUMMY mango juice to drink too!
Here's Phillip, Mary, and I enjoying our soup!~
~We had such a special Christmas eve with everyone. We laughed, talked, gave gifts,ATE LOTS, and just had a BLAST being together!!~
~(I braided my long hair and rolled it up and wore a hat for Christmas eve. =)
Pastor Jimmy and Sis. Farly gave me/us an ADORABLE set of "tinto" cups (or small coffee cups) and saucers. I squealed, for I had seen one similar at Pastor Jimmy's Mom's house and fell in love with it. I'm so HAPPY to have this set! ~
~We were happy to have Edgar and Joanna join us for the afternoon too.~
~Edgar and Bro Jaime playing Guess Who! It was hilarious to watch them.~
~Pastor Jimmy, Bro. Jaime, and Phillip wrapping a bowl with Saran wrap. It was a rebellious Saran wrap so it took all 3 of them. =D~
~Gaby, Sarah, and Mary loved their skirts that Jesus helped me make. (Sarah was with me when I bought the gingham material, but she just thought I was buying it to make my table runner. =D I cut their skirts out before I cut out my table runner and napkins so I could make sure I had plenty material for both! =)
~Bro. Jaime, and Sis. Sofia, and Edgar and Joanna each gave us a nice fruit basket!! (We gave each couple a big block of cheese, their "areguipe" ( soft caramel), and a tin of Christmas cookies.)~
~Elijah in his new PJs.~
~An up-close pic of Mary's skirt that I made~
~Just 2 of our 5 SPECIAL children who made our Christmas...and make our Lives so HAPPY!~
Pics of our Christmas day coming soon.
