I Love Christmas Eve. It is one of my favorite days. At our home, Christmas Day is about playing and having fun and Christmas Eve is about Christ and his birth. I love it. Some of the traditions we have are reading the Christmas story. It gets better each year as the boys come to understand it more. We get new PJ's which the boys love. We also will let the boys open their gifts to each other. We do this because I want those gifts to be special to the kids, and I think they get lost in the other gifts on Christmas. It is awesome. They treat those gifts like they are the best thing they have been given. The one thing I LOVE that we do on Christmas eve is the we measure the height of our boys. We measure them on the closet door. It is so amazing to see how much they grow each year.
This is what it looked like before the kids. This year they again woke up at 2:30am. I have a rule that we don't go down before 6am(I know I am mean) It took us a little over a hour to get them back to sleep(with two of them sleeping in our bed). Lucky of us they didn't wake up until 7am.
The boys coming down in the morning.
Digging through the loot.
Drew trying to find his gift.
Jared finding his gift.
At our house we open one gift at a time. We open our gifts in our TV even though the gifts are in the Piano room. This is Caleb asking to go next. The boys are so good and excited to have and wait their turns.
Drew wanted a butt pad for rollerblading. 
Caleb waiting his turn.
This is the only thing Caleb talked about for months.
Jared has been wanting a robe. He wore it for two days.
2 comments:
oh MAN your kids are cute. jammies and the Christmas story are usually my favorite spot, but they were number TWO this year to playing santa to a friends family of 8, so her kids would still believe in santa, because there were skeptics this year. i don't know how mom and dads do it year after year, but its so much fun to be santa!
The boys look sooooooo BIG!
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