Christmas at the Mobleys!

We had a wonderful Christmas Day! After the kids went to bed on Christmas Eve, I put Baby Jesus in the nativity scene so that when they woke up on Christmas, they would see that Baby Jesus was born. Maggie was our early riser and was really excited to see Baby Jesus!

David showing Maggie Baby Jesus!

For breakfast, I made not-so-sticky buns a.k.a. cinnamon rolls without the icing!  I have fond memories of always having sticky buns at my grandma's house every time we visited.  I knew we would have enough sweets later on, so I just made cinnamon rolls (we always called them sticky buns) but left out the sticky part!  

Jonathan was a huge fan!

Matthew isn't really a finger foods kind of guy yet, but he bangs everything including not-so-sticky buns!

I read the last of our Jesse Tree devotions with the children and we velcroed the last ornament on our tree. Here is a picture of this year's completed tree.

our completed Jesse Tree!

David read the last devotion to go with our Advent candle wreath and we lit all five candles! After a while, the girls huffed and puffed and blew every single candle out! This was a good start to Matthew and Jonathan's training for blowing out candles for their first birthday!

our advent candles all lit!

 Of course, there were a few presents to open!  This year, we pooled together gift money from many relatives and bought a digital piano.  We sold our piano before moving to New Orleans three and a half years ago with the intention of purchasing another one here.  We opted for a digital piano for many reasons, one of which is it will be easy to move!  An added bonus is that we can plug headphones in so that anyone can play anytime even during naptime! I am really excited about beginning to teach Mary to play piano and playing hymns for Bible time!

Mary and Maggie playing our new piano

Our church held its service at 11:00 am, so we were all able to go to church together and I was able to listen to the entire sermon!  That was a first since Matthew and Jonathan were born!  What a blessing.  We are so appreciative of our loving church family at Edgewater Baptist Church.

After church, we were able to talk to friends and family who live far away!  We also used the webcam to "exchange" presents with Nana and Papa who live in California.  Matthew and Jonathan played tug of war with one of their presents.  Jonathan, our powerhouse, won!

Matthew and Jonathan playing tug of war with a present from Nana and Papa!

Every year, we like to make a birthday cake for Baby Jesus!  Mary, Maggie and I made this chocolate chip bundt cake on Christmas Eve to eat on Christmas Day.  This is part of the reason that I left the sticky out of the sticky buns!

Mary summed up our day quite well, "Oh, what a wonderful, wonderful Christmas!"