Happy Birthday Jesus!!!

What an incredible day we had together as a family to celebrate the birth of our Savior! It was a very relaxing and fun day. By the end of the day if you asked Sawyer who's birthday it was he would say "Baby Jesus' Birthday" - it sure was cute!


We started the day off by creating the navity scene with stickers. By the time we were done you could not see baby Jesus; Sawyer had put three sheep, a shepard, a donkey, a gift from the wisemen and a tree on top of Him. I guess everyone wanted to be up close to see the King of Kings!



We then did some coloring together. Sawyer had received mail yesterday and it was from Mie Mie full of coloring pages that involved the Christmas story - thank you Mie Mie.



Sawyer and Mason sitting patiently before opening up presents. Mason did an awesome job opening his gifts but I did have to keep taking paper out of his mouth. Sawyer did an awesome job of opening his gifts as well and allowing Mason to open his own.



Our friends from IL (Dave and Jenna) sent us gifts. Sawyer got a puzzle and Mason got a stacking giraffe. I (and Tom) got homemade candy cane biscotti!



There were a lot of John Deere tractor presents.



Mason got a wooden rocking horse but he shared with Sawyer. We are still trying to settle on a name; daddy wants "Turbo" and Sawyer has called it "Jesus" and "Mason's horse".



We normally make our own birthday cake but this year Culver's was having a sale on their custard cakes - we just couldn't resist a brownie thunder cake!!!



We then brought out the play doh and made a lot of different of animals with the play doh cutters we had. We also have these cards (shown in the picture) where Sawyer takes the play doh and makes the same shape on the card. He did great and was really proud of his work. Mommy and Daddy were super proud as well.



Then it was onto Yahtzee Jr Toy Story 3 edition. (Sawyer got this present from his cousins Kaylee, Kennedy and Cameron). Sawyer won one game, Mommy won two and Daddy didn't win at all. Daddy then wanted to play just against Mommy and I still beat him!



Mie Mie and Papa then stopped over to give Sawyer a present. (He got it before the Schoessow Christmas because it was a Bob the Builder movie with a holiday theme. They wanted to make sure he was able to watch it before it got packed away with the Christmas stuff - if we pack it away.)



Before we headed to bed we opened our stockings! All three boys got a movie; Tom got "Where the Red Fern Grows", Sawyer got a Veggie Tale movie and Mason got a Boz movie.