Christmas Eve

Day

We had a wonderful day together Saturday. It was mostly a lazy day, and just perfect for us. :) Here are a few highlights...

The kids were elated when they saw all the presents under the tree...and waited, but boy was Lorelei itching to open one!

Just a few cute pictures from our day. Brad thought it would be fun to try out some gel in Makins hair...think it would be better if his hair was thicker and shorter, so may wait a bit before we try it again, but was fun anyway. :) The one of Lorelei with her hands up is how I found her sitting after I painted her nails sparkley. :) I did tell her not to touch anything! :)


And then some family pictures. Finally got the one Jeanette requested of us in front of the house...about a month late! Guess I flunked daughter-in-law 101! Sorry! Anyway thought we better take a picture like that after realizing I forgot to take one earlier as intended. We enjoyed having a fire going and reading Christmas books in front of it before nap. :)


And other random pictures from the day include...the branch on our tree with four ornaments hanging on it. :) Found that and asked Lorelei about it, she is just trying to keep them away from her brother's reach! :) And then the highlight of the day for the kids and the headache for me...a remote control helicopter Brad got in the mail for FREE to test out and send feed-back. Oh boy does it keep the kids entertained...and he is crashing it less now, otherwise he knows he gets sent outside in the cold! Lorelei said,"Remember Daddy, don't hit Mommy's tree!" And the other pics are just their cute stockings (Thanks Jeanette) and Makin loving our Christmas Eve chili! :)

Night

All dolled up and ready to head to the candle light service at church. We had a wonderful service, but Makin did keep me on my toes the whole time, especially when he wanted to hold the candle at the end. Lorelei, however, took it all in and was very sweet to her dad while we sang Silent Night.

























And then (bad parental judgement call probably since they were both VERY tired the next day) we headed to a neighborhood that was close to church to check out some Christmas lights. We did not make time to do that earlier in the month as we had planned, so figured since this was supposed to be impressive and was near church, we could do one trip. I packed a star sugar cookie for each munchkin and we were on our way. The neighborhood was quite impressive, and we even had one house that was astonishing and choreographed with music. We even got out to watch for a bit. Hoping to go next year earlier in the month and just park in front and watch from our toasty car. :) http://gordonlights.com/ Has some videos from last year! Apparently its a tradition we can look forward to. :)


Then we got home, sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and ate his little cake (mint chocolate, do you know who picked it up? ;) ) and got to open 1 1/2 presents (they got the remote bus together) before bath and setting out treats for Santa and Reindeer.

And Lorelei's thoughts on Santa coming? "Maybe he need a roll, and coffee, and hot chocolate, and milk..." :) "Maybe Santa need to use bathroom...from all that milk." :) And of course, the animal girl she is, her first priority getting the goodies, was the carrot.

Wonderful Day and Night!