Christmas Eve

Today was our day to spend with Todd's side of the family. We were starting our day early since we had church at 6:00PM and then wanted to get home and get the babes in bed at a decent hour before big jolly man arrived at our house. We spent most of the morning in our jammies playing games before we started to get ready. It was a nice relaxing way to start what was going to be a very busy day.

When we got to the Miller's house, all of the cousins were there and all eager to get started with their stockings. Kaye had all of the kids sit in a circle and they each got to take one thing at a time out of their stocking to open. They were all excited to open all of the little surprises and to see what each other got. They were all busy playing with stocking gifts so the adults all opened a few gifts. I was so excited to open my Cake Pop maker! I'm hoping to make many deliciously cute treats with it!

After a bit of play time the kids joined us back in the living room and opened their gifts. Jackson was excited to open his new Play-Doh set and a scooter. He was outside rather quickly trying it out. Aubrin loved her new pillow pet, watch and scooter.

After gifts we had dinner and dessert. The kids played a bit more and then we rounded the kids up and got ready to go to church. We headed back to our church so we could get home earlier. Sorrows always had such a beautiful Christmas mass, but it is always so crowded and we have to get there an hour before it starts. We had a feeling that our church won't be as packed for the 6:00 mass. When we pulled in the parking lot 30 minutes before mass it was still pretty empty. We drove around for a few minutes looking at Christmas lights. Once we finally made it into church we were happy to see the Campau's and that there were seats right behind them.

Once we got home, we put our reindeer food out, snacks for Santa and got into our jammies.

We also had to say good bye to our elf Harry. Becasue it was Harry's last night with us, the kids were able to touch him and he wouldn't lose his powers. They both hugged Harry and said their good byes until next year.

Jackson and Aubrin were so excited to go to bed so Christmas morning would get here sooner. Todd and Jackson checked for Santa on the computer on the Santa tracker. He was scheduled to arrive at our house soon, so the kids ran upstairs, brushed teeth, jumped in bed and we didn't hear a peep.