Christmas eve

Christmas eve is so fun!! We go to Grandmas and the kids get to open a homemade pair of pj's. When have dinner and spend time with the family. When we come home we get ready for the big mans arrival. I caught Carson looking out the window and asked him what he was doing. He answered "looking for Santa"

While we make our cookies for Santa we drink hot cocoa. This has to be my favorite picture of them all. Hot cocoa mustaches!

I have gotten lazy over the years and I now buy pre-made sugar cookie dough. It saves me lots of time and clean up.
Here is a good picture of the kids in their homemade pj's. I save their pants after they have outgrown them and grandma is going to cut out squares from them and make a quilt one day.

Here is Avery in her baby's first Christmas jammies.

We made homemade reindeer food for Santa's deer. The kids sprinkle it on the lawn so the reindeer will stop at our house.

Our Santa loves coke with his cookies :)


On Christmas eve we let the kids sleep together in the boys room. They love to sit and talk about where Santa is and they swear they can hear his bells. I swear one year when I was little, I heard his bells too. Christmas is so magical when you are a kid.
This year we had a close call while playing Santa. We thought the kids were asleep and started filling stalkings and putting out the big gifts when I thought I heard foot steps. I got up to go look and sure enough Bailey was coming down the stairs! I screamed so loud and scared Bailey and Morgan so bad! Luckily she didn't see anything. Next year we need to make sure we are a little more discreet.