What did we do on Christmas Eve to prepare for the big day? Well I'll show you with pictures! We started with watching a few movies and not all were the typical Christmas movies. We watched Toy Story 3, A Bug's Life and..........
How to Train Your Dragon. The kiddos also did their fair share of lazing about, as you can see.
Little Big Foot and Baby Long Legs had some fun playing with Daddy. They had the advantage being that Daddy was confined to the sofa this morning ;)
Then we had some fun picking on poor Jill here. She didn't seem to mind. She generally doesn't as long as she is getting some attention. Cute huh? LOL!
While the kiddos were occupied with their movies, I setup the table for our special family Christmas Dinner.
I also cleaned up our special Dinnerware for Christmas and have it setup for tomorrow! We are all so excited for Dinner tomorrow! Grama is preparing all the food and then joining us for our special dinner.
Then we setup for the Rice Crispy Houses while LBF and BLL took a brief nap. When they awoke, we all got ready to go see the lights at Heartsprings! They were beautiful!! I unfortunately don't have pictures of those, I was driving.
After our lights viewing, we came home and we started frosting LBF's and BLL's rice crispy houses.
Once Mommy finished frosting, LBF and BLLs started sticking their little candies onto their houses(or in BLLs case, eating their candy)
Once the candy was placed, we decided to take a moment to let the frosting dry and have LBF and BLL open their special Christmas Eve gifts from Mommy and Daddy. Sorry the video cuts off at the end, our camera ran out of space. Something I will remedy before tomorrow!
After LBF and BLL enjoyed opening their special gifts, we headed outside to put down the Reindeer Food!
Santa's Reindeer will be well fed this year!
Once Santa's Reindeer were taken care of, we came back inside to finish our Rice Crispy Treat Houses. It is now time to paint their houses, with their new buddies of course!
Finally they finished! Here are the end results. They both did a GREAT job, all by themselves this year! They are growing up too fast(I know I say that a lot, but seriously it just amazes me how much changes from year to year!)
Then we changed into our PJs and relaxed. LBF and BLL enjoyed watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
While the kiddos were watching Rudolph, Daddy whipped up some more cookies for Santa. After the show was over, LBF and BLL were more than happy to help set out the cookies and egg nog for Santa.
A quick snapshot of their matching Christmas PJs.
And now that brings us to the end of our evening, time to read our special Christmas books. LBF and BLL were so excited to read their books and then they were off to bed with Rudolph and Clarice in tow. They are still chattering back in forth and it's now midnight! Lets hope they settle down soon so that Santa can come for a visit and enjoy these tasty cookies and egg nog ;)
I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas Eve and a very Merry Christmas! Hope the morning brings many happy memories for all!!
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