Our Family: the EVE of Christmas Eve

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

the EVE of Christmas Eve

One of my VERY favorite traditions happens on this night! Its when we celebrate Christmas with just our family! With both of our families living here (which is great) our holidays are usually jam packed full of fun! So a couple years ago we started this new tradition! We have a nice dinner...the kids get to open their presents from each other (we draw names), we watch a Christmas movie and ALL sleep in the living room with the Christmas tree lights! It is so much fun!

The kids are so excited to open their gifts...

Nate drew Lucy's name and he knew exactly what he wanted to get her..a "baby doll"... She loved it...

Sammy drew Nate's name and bought him the "socker bopper" punching balloon things...he was very excited...

Lucy drew Ben's name and bought him a Cardinals football...

Ben drew Sammy's name and he picked out some lip gloss and a book he thought she would like...

The kids also gave us the gifts they picked for us...my favorite gifts...a new mug, a huge diamond paper weight, and a music box

Then we set up the beds (jumped on the beds)...watched Home Alone and slept under the tree...so much fun!

2 comments:

Ashley said...: haha I noticed that presley had marked down that she was going to get me that ginormous crystal thing so in passing i mentioned how badly I wanted a new ornament...that was all it took, I saw her erase and re mark the ornament she was now getting me;) I'm so bad but that girl is notorious for getting monstrosities from that dang christmas store.; January 17, 2012 at 12:58 PM
The Lees said...: I love spending time with all our extended family, but I love this idea of having a set night for your own little family. I think that's a tradition I need to start.; January 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM

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Things that make me SMILE...

Benson went to get Lucy out of her crib and Nate was in the crib with her...holding her mobile over her head and said "look dad...I can hold this for Lucy" 1/10

Lucy has the cutest smile...and she scrunches up her little nose! 12/09

All Ben wants for Christmas is a SPY KIT! He is obsessed with it...I ask him who he wants to spy on and he told me "you!" 12/09

November 2008: Ben had a paper in his folder from school that said "Ask me to help you with a chore tonight" I read it to him and quickly snatched it out of my hand and threw it in the trash and said "that is for NEXT year"

November 2008 : I ask Ben what he wanted to be when he grew up he said "a daddy with a 100 babies AND a grown up human"

November 2008: I ask Samantha what she wanted to be when she grows up she said "a mommy" and I said how many babies do you want to have and she said "how ever many babies you have, mom"

October 2008: Nate climbs into bed with me with a pirate patch on and says "Mom, I'm a pirate treasure"

July 2008: Nate sees cupcakes at the store and says "Nate WUVVVS tup-takes"

Words to Live By...

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less." -- Anna Quindlen