Christmas Eve 2013!

Christmas Eve 2013

The girls and I spent the morning baking our favorite Christmas Goodies: Sugar cookies, divinity and white chocolate covered pretzels. (We didn't get too elaborate this year because Christmas just seemed to come soo fast. We're lucky we even got our baking done at all.) Later that afternoon Adam got home from work and we ran around a couple gifts and then came back and grabbed the girls for dinner. One of Adam's mom's favorite restaurants was China Palace and so now in remembrance of her we try to go there each Christmas Eve. After dinner we drove around and looked at a few lights we had missed previously and headed home. We all got in our new Christmas Eve pajamas and read the Nativity Story.  Afterwards we opened gifts to each other. (this year we had decided not to pick names and to spend that money on Military families instead-different post, but about a week before Christmas Gentry decided that we still needed to pick names only this year we couldn't spend anything on them we had to strictly make it from what we had around the house...and so we did)

Sadie had Adam. She found a clear glass ornament and wrote on the outside "Reason's why I love you" and then typed up reasons on green and red strips of paper and put them inside, then she also gave him a roll of toilet paper with a tag that said "In case you get crap for Christmas" haha!

Gentry had Calli. She made this darling wood nativity at Activities Days and came home soo excited knowing exactly what she wanted to do with it. 

I had Gentry. I made her 4 colors of homemade Playdoe. 

Calli had Sadie. She gave her a rope with painted clothespins to match her room and hung pictures on it. 

Adam had Me. He gave me a $100 dollar bill folded into a heart. He sais that he "made" the hundred dollars and he "made" the heart. So technically it was fair.  I busted up laughing. Cheating or not I loved it. (He actually had to go to the girls and learn how to fold it...so cute!)

After our family gifts, we opened our Traditional Christmas Eve gifts...Games. 

 This year we got two: A Disney Game and a Duck Dynasty Game. We spent the rest of the night playing games, laughing and getting sick with all the junk food and munchies. 

Later that night before heading to bed, the girls went outside, made a wish and sprinkled their "Reindeer Food" that Jingle Jr. brought them on the grass. Hope Santa Comes Tonight!!