Christmas Eve 2011

Thankfully Christmas Eve this year was a little less eventful than last year and required no trips to the ER to remove beads from 1 year olds noses but with a newborn we were still pretty busy. My favorite part of this Christmas Eve was getting to go to the candlelight service at our church, the candlelight and music were just beautiful! It was definately the perfect way to kick off the Christmas weekend and refocus our attention to the Risen King.

After the candlelight service we all went back to our house to enjoy our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of Mexican food. After dinner we got a really special treat when Keller read us the Christmas story, wow it is hard to believe how big he is already. After the Christmas story Ava Kate insisted that Nana read the Fancy Nancy Christmas book. Then it was time to open gifts. Ava Kate got some tap shoes and tights, a Strawberry shortcake doll and Princess salon kit. Jett got a cool dinosaur book and a ball that lights up. Keller entertained us the rest of the evening with his new prank and magic kits that he got!

After everyone else went home we all put on our Christmas PJ's and put out cookies and milk for Santa. Unfortunately I failed to get a pic in our Christmas PJ's this year!