The kids were pretty giddy with excitement all day long on December 24th. It is such a magical day, the anticipation of Christmas day so close you can feel it in the air!
After our traditional dinner of pizza, breadsticks and salad, we headed out on the town to look at a few Christmas lights. Then we headed back home in order to read and act out the Christmas story.
We have the main parts covered in our home, although the "baby Jesus" isn't exactly a baby any longer!
Our beautiful and serene-looking Mary...
Our "baby" Jesus...
And our noble-looking Joseph...
After the Nativity, it was time to open our Christmas Eve pajamas...
Don't they look adorable?
(I think I should earn a medal for being able to find matching pajamas that would fit all three kids and were gender-neutral. Not such an easy task!) The bonus part about these pajamas are that they are super warm fleece ones and although they have the Christmas colors, they are actually apples so not too holiday-themed. Thank you Amazon!!
Then it was time to open a new family game...Twister!!
This was actually a pretty fun game to get since we can all "play" it together (although Nolan tends to cheat a lot :)
After a short Christmas video, we laid out our treats for Santa, sprinkled reindeer dust on both the front and back lawns, and then said goodnight. Abby and Nolan fell asleep rather quickly, but Landon was our night owl again. It takes him a while to fall asleep on a normal night, so Christmas Eve was especially difficult for this little guy to quiet his mind and enter dreamland. I think he FINALLY fell asleep around 11 p.m., with just enough time for Santa's "helpers" to get things arranged for the next day.
"T'was the night before Christmas!!"
1 comment:
BIG props on finding those pajamas. It is so fun to see them all wearing the same thing, and not too holidayish:) That picture of them sitting up is hard to figure out where one of their bodies stops and the other starts:)
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