Christmas Eve

Sarah, Megan and Matthew are all super excited about Christmas. In fact, Matthew is in Megan and Matthew's room telling Megan that they need to go to sleep so Santa Claus can come. Sarah, on the other hand, has assured us that she is going to stay up until Santa comes so that she can see him. We will see how that works out for her.....

We enjoyed our traditional Christmas meal followed by our Christmas program, using the Little People nativity to act out the first Christmas. Ours was definitely unique, complete with Mary pulling baby Jesus in the cart (instead of a donkey). We sang some Christmas songs and decorated cookies.

Sarah putting frosting on a cookie.

Megan adding sprinkles.

Matthew and daddy discussing the best strategy for decorating the cookie.

Sarah's cookies

Everyone else's cookies. The ones that look super nice are U's. The one with a bite out of it is Matthew's.

The kids then wrote a letter to Santa (it is quite the epistle!) and set out some cookies & milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

Our tree with all our presents. Wow!

The kids opened their Christmas jams. Megan's even came with a matching nightgown for baby. They also opened their gifts from each other. We decided to do that so they would appreciate what their siblings gave them instead of it being just another gift to open. They sure loved the gifts they got! And they like playing with them. They certainly would have gone to bed earlier if we hadn't done sibling gifts (we actually had to call Matthew back downstairs to open the presents--he wanted to get to bed before Santa arrived. But once he opened them, he just wanted to play.). Overall it was a very enjoyable evening.

Merry Christmas!!!