Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve day was filled with so much adrenaline from the highly anticipated next day that I had to come up with some extra activities. Weeks ago I found some fun ornament making kits at Fleet Farm (you can pretty much find ANYTHING at Fleet Farm), One was a wood one where they painted the ornaments, and this one was the stained glass one. This took up several hours of of the day that they wanted to go by fast. They couldn't wait for night to come so that they could go to bed. Why can't they want that everyday?




Kaden and Kauri working very hard on their ornaments. They did turn out pretty.


Kambrie and Kyson concentrating on their ornaments.

This was a fun activity for the kids. I will have to remember to get stuff like that again for them to do. They were all excited to see how they turned out and immediately put them on the tree.

For dinner we decided to stick with our tradition of having Mexican food for Christmas Eve dinner. We had enchiladas, carnitas, rice with black beans and chips with Phil's very yummy salsa.

After dinner we had them shower and get in their p.j.'s and then settled in to watch a movie together. After the movie we had them open a present, which is a new tradition for us. They all got new p.j.'s and changed into them. Next year we will let them do this before the movie, this got them a little excited. However, they did go to bed quickly and seemed to fall asleep rather fast. Phil and I were still "helping" Santa at this point, but finished up around midnight. We told the kids they couldn't get up before 6 a.m.