Christmas Eve

We had an action packed Christmas Eve!! It started with Matt and Mackenzi getting a much needed haircut (Mackenzi had 3 1/2 inches cut from her golden locks). As soon as they were back, Matt loaded the kids up to visit his parents work. They have a family pot-luck every year and everyone wanted to visit with the kids! While they were visiting, I went to my sister's house to help my mom prepare for Christmas eve dinner. After nap time, we dressed the kids and headed to Christmas Eve Mass with Matt's family. The kids looked adorable (which is the total opposite from the way they acted in church! AHHHH).

After church, we zoomed on over to Dana's house. We always spend Christmas Eve with my family. It has been at my mom's house since my Grammy passed away, but this year it was at my sister's. We had a lot of people coming to celebrate with us and her house is the biggest of all of ours. Her house was decorated beautifully! We had a delicious dinner, had a wonderful time visiting and acting silly, and an even better time playing with cousins!!!

The kids waited patiently for the time to finally open presents. They were all so excited to see their gifts. This was the first year that we did a gift exchange for adults and one for the kids. It was much better than getting SO many gifts from everyone. Simple and fun!!!When we got home, we made sure to sprinkle oats & glitter out on the front lawn. The glitter helps the reindeer see our house when it reflects off of the moon. The oats are for the reindeer to snack on. They do get very tired from flying all night, you know!! Then we made sure we left Santa a HUGE mug of milk, a chocolate chip cookie, and a sugar cookie to snack on!! THEY WERE DELICIOUS...ahem.... or so I'm told!!