I love spoiling my kids. I wish I could spoil them as much as Santa does.
Megan's big gift was her American Girl doll. She named it Jane. She absolutely loves it and I LOVE watching her enjoy it. She took her doll to church Christmas morning and it was so much fun watching so many people watch her. Megan and her doll look alike and they both wore the same dress. You could tell people just loved watching her with her doll. I imagine many of the women flashed back to the days when they were little and had a special doll. I thought it was funny that Megan couldn't take her eyes off her doll during church and then I realized I was doing the exact same thing! I couldn't take my eyes off Megan! It was fun. Keith also had fun watching Megan. Keith had Megan sitting right next to him and he had her cuddled up in his arm. For a while whenever Megan would do something to her doll like stroke her hair, Keith would do the same to Megan. It was hilarious and the people behind us (especially Sister Mower) were laughing so hard!
Luke's main gift was his solar panel. He is such a fun little geeky kid. He loves anything science and lately is really interested in things that create electricity. Can you see his t-shirt? It says Ge Ni U S. Genius written from the periodic table. Luke saw that shirt in a magazine and was dying to have it! Another big hit from Santa was his Infared Thermometer. It's a laser-sighted infrared gun-style thermometer that can tell the temperature of anything by just pointing at it. It's pretty interesting and a great gift for our little scientist. After church Luke was really excited to tell people about his presents. I think he likes the surprised reactions he gets. As you can imagine he got some strange looks from people when he would tell them how excited he was to get a solar panel and a infared thermometer. His primary teacher said he wouldn't be surprised if Luke won the Nobel Peace Prize one day. Luke thought that was great.
Church on Christmas was really nice. I literally worried about going at 9:00 a.m. for half of the year but it worked out well. Keith and I tried to get the bishop to change the time to 10 or later but they wouldn't go for it. Obviously church and Jesus Christ are the most important things on Christmas, but I really think Christmas morning family traditions are important too. I was so scared we wouldn't be able to do everything we wanted before going to Church but because we got up at 6:30 and had as much done as we could the night before things worked out ok, and we got to church only a few seconds after it began. It was a nice service. I especially liked the things our bishop spoke about that day. He has a gentle way of inspiring me to want to serve more people.
