Christmas Eve was quite at our house, which was nice. We shifted nap time a bit earlier to make it to the family Christmas Eve service at our church at 3 PM. I love going to that service because it’s geared towards the kids – no long sermon just a book reading up front for all the kids to hear (bonus: they also get sent home with a copy of the Christmas book that is read).
After church, we headed over to Cory’s brother’s house, for our first Christmas gathering with Cory’s immediate family. Both his mom & dad were there along with his brother, his brother’s girlfriend and our niece “H”. They decided to play it easy this year and have little snacks beforehand & pizza for our main meal.
The boys got a ton of presents. They were patient enough to watch grandpa open up his gifts first, followed immediately by them. They were really good about asking who each gift was from before opening it and thought that each present they opened was the best gift ever. They ended up playing with their new remote control cars (which I think will be even more fun this summer outside!) and leaf blowers right away. Such a fun age.
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| Present time! |
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| Wyatt testing out his new car. |
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| Colton ready to blow some leaves. |
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| Teasing cousin "H". |
When bedtime crept around we headed home with a couple to-dos on our list. The boys had made “reindeer food” at daycare (oatmeal with green glitter), which we needed to put outside to help Santa & his reindeer find our house. Each boy sprinkled his bag of “food” out in the freshly fallen snow outside of our garage.
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| Sprinkling the "reindeer food" on the snow. |
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| Bailey sure was curious! |
We set out some notes that the boys (mostly Colton) had made for Santa. We also set out milk and a blueberry cookie (Wyatt’s choice) and a rice crispy bar (Colton’s choice) before heading to bed for the night.
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| Our notes to Santa. |
We were all excited for Santa’s visit!
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