Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve getting ready for Santa’s visit that night and trying our best to remind our littles what Christmas is really all about. 

First up…stay in your PJ’s all day!

Second…make cookies for Santa

What?  We didn’t sample any dough…

We spent the afternoon hanging out as a family, and had our traditional Crab bisque dinner…well Jeff and I did…the kids had an alternate menu!

Then we wrote our letter to santa….

Got the letter, cookies and reindeer food ready…silly mommy forgot the carrots but I assured Brady that the reindeer loved Celery too!!

One last picture in front of the tree…in the cute reindeer antlers from Bryan and Juli….

Well, we tried!

 

We then read the real Christmas story, talked about Jesus’ birthday and then it was off to bed!

Then the elves got busy.  These elves didn’t plan very well when picking out presents…there was a lot of assembling to be done!  After lots of blood, sweat, tears and a midnight battery run (thank you 24 hr CVS) the Elves CRASHED. 

In keeping with our 3 present rule….

Everyone got a new kitchen to share….

Brady Got an E-Z fort (soo  cool) and a Tag Reader

 

Kaden a slide and a truck and Karsyn a Piano and an interactive singing puppy…

Happy Birthday Jesus!