{Christmas Eve}

 I realize that it is way past due for a post about Christmas but really this is the first time I have had a moment to sit down with nothing or no one pressing for my time.  So here is my Christmas Eve post a good week late.  We had a nice, quiet Christmas Eve this year.  We stayed home with our little family and chillaxed all day.  We tidied up the house so that our house wasn't a complete bomb when Christmas morning came.  We watched some football, I got my groove on in the kitchen with a nice ham dinner.  Before we knew it, it was time to do some traditional Christmas Eve stuff.  Each and every year we decorate homemade sugar cookies for Santa.  This year was no different, except that I only made a half batch (Santa doesn't need 25 cookies to eat)!!  The kids each got to decorate 4 or so and then they got to pick one to eat and one to put out for Santa.  Cookies are one of the kids' favorite things to do!!

The other tradition we do is new pj's Christmas eve night.  This year the boys got robes to go with their pj's and so of course a photo shoot was in order.  This is only one of many pictures that was taken and by far it is the best one.  I have some really "photogenic" kids!!  After our photo shoot we got out our scriptures and read the Christmas Story from the New Testament.  By that time it was ready for bed and the kids went to bed pretty well considering.  We had to threaten Wyatt a few times with Santa not coming if he got off his bed, but finally exhaustion took over and he gave up.  We also had to be ready for 9 o'clock church the next morning so we really tried to get to bed early.  So there you have it a nice, quiet Christmas Eve.