Oh how I love Christmas time. At our house Christmas Eve yields as many Christmas traditions as does Christmas Day. We always start and end the day with a quick pick up of the house. After that the cooking begins. We always have huge feast. Followed by a trip to the tower to look for Santa. Then we rush home to change into our Christmas Jammies, watch a Christmas movie, eat pie and drink eggnog, set up our chairs, read the Christmas story, and head to bed. The day is packed of excitement and it takes a while for the kids to settle down. I love hearing them giggle and eventually fall asleep together all sleeping in the same room.
Nichole made this Nativity for us to display. She made it out of tin foil.
The girls all helped me cook our dinner. Ella quickly gave up and ended up helping Tyler pick up the house again.
I wanted a normal shot of the family waiting for dinner. But nope they would not cooperate and I gave up. Those turds. We had quite a feast for dinner. We had ham, yummy potatoes, chicken wings, mac and cheese, bread sticks, and Brussel sprouts. When I was deciding the menu I gathered everyone together and told them to tell me what they wanted. This is what we came up with. For dessert we had pecan pie, pumpkin pie (I made it from scratch for the first time ever), and coconut bread.
After our dinner we headed over to the tower to look for Santa Claus. We have done this for at least 7 years now. The kids look and look for the flashing light of Rudolph's nose. Someone always spots it, so of course we have to rush home and get ready for the night so we can be asleep before Santa makes it to our house.
The tower at Nate's work is about 13 stories tall. Luckily there is a working elevator to get us to the top. The big girls decided to walk down the stairs instead of take the elevator. You can easily see Natalie's face as she is peeking over the edge but you can't as easily see Nichole's face about 4 more flights of stairs up. It is kinda freaky to look down from the top floor and see the very bottom floor.
Every Christmas Eve we open Christmas jammies to wear Christmas morning and almost all of Christmas Day. This year was a little different because Natalie, Nichole, and My pajama's were still packed away waiting for the movers we didn't have pajama's to open. Nate came up with a creative solution. He took Natalie and Nichole out to pick out a pair of slipper's and I got to open up my blanket that I had picked out a few days prior. At least we all had something vaguely Pajamaish to us or wear for Christmas morning. I asked the little kids to wrap Nichole and Natalie's slipper's. Apparently we were running low on paper and both of them only got their slippers only part of the way wrapped up.
Nichole made this Nativity for us to display. She made it out of tin foil.
The girls all helped me cook our dinner. Ella quickly gave up and ended up helping Tyler pick up the house again.
I wanted a normal shot of the family waiting for dinner. But nope they would not cooperate and I gave up. Those turds. We had quite a feast for dinner. We had ham, yummy potatoes, chicken wings, mac and cheese, bread sticks, and Brussel sprouts. When I was deciding the menu I gathered everyone together and told them to tell me what they wanted. This is what we came up with. For dessert we had pecan pie, pumpkin pie (I made it from scratch for the first time ever), and coconut bread.
After our dinner we headed over to the tower to look for Santa Claus. We have done this for at least 7 years now. The kids look and look for the flashing light of Rudolph's nose. Someone always spots it, so of course we have to rush home and get ready for the night so we can be asleep before Santa makes it to our house.
The tower at Nate's work is about 13 stories tall. Luckily there is a working elevator to get us to the top. The big girls decided to walk down the stairs instead of take the elevator. You can easily see Natalie's face as she is peeking over the edge but you can't as easily see Nichole's face about 4 more flights of stairs up. It is kinda freaky to look down from the top floor and see the very bottom floor.
Every Christmas Eve we open Christmas jammies to wear Christmas morning and almost all of Christmas Day. This year was a little different because Natalie, Nichole, and My pajama's were still packed away waiting for the movers we didn't have pajama's to open. Nate came up with a creative solution. He took Natalie and Nichole out to pick out a pair of slipper's and I got to open up my blanket that I had picked out a few days prior. At least we all had something vaguely Pajamaish to us or wear for Christmas morning. I asked the little kids to wrap Nichole and Natalie's slipper's. Apparently we were running low on paper and both of them only got their slippers only part of the way wrapped up.
After we opened up our presents we watched our Christmas movie. This year we watched A Christmas Carol. It was really interesting to watch on a 8 inch screen. I served out dessert and eggnog while we watched the movie. When that was over the kids set up their chair in the room. Their chair is where Santa leaves their gifts. Then they also up their stockings, their Christmas cereal, and their Christmas fruit on their chair too. After that the kids all went to bed in Tyler's room. I can in and read to them the account of our Savior's birth. The kids fell asleep rather quickly for it being Christmas Eve and all.
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