presents!!

it is tradition in the goodlet family to make a display with one's birthday or christmas presents to show off. so we did. mum says that she and her siblings used to do it as kids too. so it obviously goes way back.

so here we are...

dougs

mine

and maddies!

would you believe that we did not open our presents until almost five o'clock? - yes people i know you're rolling your eyes and thinking that for people with kids that's normal - i do not mean am. almost five pm - (christmas obviously was a sunday so between getting up, getting maddie and ourselves ready and being at church early so i could have one final practice with sis chapman before singing in sacrament meeting we just couldn't be bothered!!) we got home... had lunch, and then finally got to the gifts. mum thought it was the funniest thing of all time, and said it was the latest in her life that she could ever recall opening them. me too! something tells me it will never happen again either. not now that there's a baby in the fam!

church was gorgeous, really lovely speakers and three of them were kids! i loved it, as in my opinion the best part of christmas is the excitement from the kids ♥. i sang "it came upon the midnight clear", a rearranged version by sally deford which you can see and hear - here! i love her music, she is so talented and has such a wonderful spirit to her work. it was such a perfect day.