Christmas Eve

At the beginning of the month, Eddie brought a Christmas Lego advent calendar!  It was fun!  The kids all alternated days opening up a square and got to build something new for the Christmas scene.

Christmas Eve was on a Sunday this year and we needed to get to Sacrament meeting.  We woke up a litle early and got our Christmas cookies decorated and then the kids all ate one for breakfast!  Best mom ever!

I love watching these little people decorate their cookies.  Their creativity...their concentration...their cute smiles....I love it all!  They get their own knives and share small tubs of frosting.  There is a whole lot of finger licking fun going on and I make sure the finger licks stay on their side of the counter!

After church we went to Brad & Mona's house for a delicious late lunch.  Mona made a ton of treats!  Here are her words, "The "in honor of section". Fruitcake in honor of my mom. Divinity in honor of my mom and grandma sorensen. Toffee in honor of my uncle Jim. Shenkalies in honor of my grandma Aebischer. Carrot pudding in honor of my grandma Sorensen." 

 Can you see Rylee's roll?  Logan was grossing out his sister with his Jello eating etiquette and Brad read us the Christmas story.

We watched a cute video on YouTube that my mom had shown the Anderson family with kids talking about the birth of Christ.  It was pretty dang adorable.

This year we drew names as a family.  I think that I will make it a new tradition.  Then on Christmas Eve we will open pajama presents and the names that we drew from one another.  Taylor's gift from Alexa was a HIT!  We have had a rope hanging in the cherry tree for several months and she LOVES to swing on it every single day.  So Alexa got her a little disc swing.  Tears of joy were just streaming down her face.

Time to open Christmas Pajamas!  The girls were so excited, they were ready for bed and just had to change again.

All of the cuties got footie jammies this year.

 This was the first year that all of the kids got to sleep in the same room on Christmas Eve.  That one night ended up really being over a week that they slept that way! 

 Caleb gave Santa his gingerbread cookie that says St Nick, Taylor gave him her fanciest tree, and Rylee poured the milk.  Caleb made sure that there was enough carrots for each of the reindeer and left Santa a little note.