Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Next, Christmas Eve

I am so far behind on blogging about all the Christmas stuff!  But that's me: always a week behind on everything!  Christmas Eve was kind of thrown together last minute.  We didn't know what we were going to do until that day.  Matt and Katie were going to be with her side for Christmas day, so we all decided to celebrate the holiday with their parents on Christmas Eve.  I thought it turned out to be great, minus the fact that Mark and I and the kids missed church by about 7 minutes!  We were in front of the church, but Matt said it was pretty packed and we probably wouldn't find a seat anyway.  Oops, sorry Jesus!

While we were waiting for the rest of the family to get back to the house, Cameron got to open his letter from Santa.  He was pretty excited to get his own mail!!  And yes, I bought it from an Etsy shop, filled out a questionnaire to personalize it and had it shipped from North Pole, IL.  Who care's?  He loved it!
 We took a few pics, before the kids were to distracted, HA!

Pretty tree, huh?
 The best I could get!!
When they got home, we had dinner and dessert (an awesome ginger bread cake!)  Everything was really, really good!!!  Then, onto gifts it was.  

Avery and Googa in there cute little dresses with red turtlenecks.  How cute are they??

 Loved his cake, well two servings of cake, since he didn't eat dinner!
 Cam played us some music, while he sang Jingle Bells, his song of the season!
Googa and Papa got him his first pair of ski's!  We are going to have sooo much fun bringing him "skiing".  At this age, its good to get him to learn balance and what not to be able to be good at it later on.  Think we may need a helmet!!
 Avery had fun sitting and opening her presents with her Googa.  She stayed awake the whole time, waaay past bedtime!  But once bundled up in her car seat, she was out for the night!
After we left, I really wanted Cam to stay awake to do the cookies and milk thing and he did!  It was pretty unheard of for him to stay awake in the car at 8:30!  But I'm glad he did!  He was pretty cute and I think it got him to get the idea that Santa was coming that night a little more.  And he got to say goodbye to Chippy.  More on that later!!

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