Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was full of activities and fun!

The first thing I did was clean our room! Doesn't that sound like more fun that you've had in awhile? :) Well it hadn't been cleaned since we sort of moved my office into our room. We had an ironing board in front of our dresser for a couple months. That's how bad it was... and since Jared would be spending all of his time in our room, I thought it would be really nice if I cleaned it. And with Grandma watching the boys, I did it! I never took a picture and it's definitely not clean right now so just imagine it. :)

Then I went to pick up Jared from the hospital. He came home and found his spot on the bed. Then I finished making some presents for Brady.

Then the time came for yummy Christmas Eve dinner! I asked my mom to bring left over turkey from her house. We were going to have turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and corn. Yum! Since I was busy finishing up Brady's present, I asked my mom to make dinner. Well, Grandma thought that she would use the turkey to make this Turkey and Rice dinner and totally didn't understand what I was going for. While the Turkey and Rice was sitting there, she boiled some potatoes and then smushed the potatoes and poured gravy on them. To top it off, the stuffing I had was about three years expired. This is what our Christmas dinner looked like. :)

It was so funny. My mom said, "Well what did you think I needed the Cream of Chicken for?" "I thought it was for the gravy for some weird reason!" haha. We had a good laugh and our bellies were full. :)

We waited until Uncle Steven got here to start the festivities. Grandma Lisa and Uncle Steven stayed at our house for Christmas and it was so much fun to have them!

We went up to our room to open our pajamas and give our gifts to Jesus. It worked out a lot better for Jared so he could join us. Ryan helped everyone open their presents. I don't know what he is going to do next year when he has to compete with Brady. :)

Grandma loved how her new pajamas matched her Christmas shirt. Doesn't she look so cute!!

After we put on our new pj's we gave our gifts to Jesus. Since it is his birthday, I wanted to focus that we should give him gifts as well. I had a little box and papers to write on. We wrote something that we can give to Jesus, such as being better, kinder, etc. on the piece of paper and put it in the box. Then next year we will open it and see how we did. Ryan drew on his paper and said that he gave Jesus a firetruck and a choo choo train. :)

Somebody wasn't very happy about staying up for the Christmas festivities. :)
Brady got to go to bed early.

We played stick the nose on the reindeer!
Ryan was amazing and totally got it! Well, he did peek! :)

This video of him playing this game is SO cute!


We also made cookies for Santa! Can I say we made them when all we did was break them apart and put them on the cookie sheet? :)

Then we had yummy hot chocolate with our cookies and pumpkin pie!

Then we wrote a note to Santa leaving him cookies and milk.

Uncle Steven drank the milk and ate the cookies.

And Daddy wrote the Santa note thanking Ryan for the cookies. I had to get him involved some how, poor guy.

While we wrapped presents we watched A Christmas Carol with Jim Carey. It was a fun movie to watch and we finished wrapping right before the movie was over. We went to bed around 2:30 AM.

I love how the tree looks when everything is under the tree and the stockings are stuffed. This was the first year we used stockings and I stuffed them myself. I think I overdid it! Next year I'll limit my dollar store toys. :)