We celebrated Christmas Day in our new house this year! I loved having the kids in our own house as we enjoyed our traditions and fun! Especially with Henry. There are a ton of pictures in this post - Christmas Eve, presents, and fun with Papa and Mimi.
First off was our Christmas Eve service...or, I guess, pictures of us in all of our fancy clothes before the Christmas Eve service.
The service was beautiful, and Bella and Evelyn got to go onstage to enjoy a story from Denise. It was fun to hear Evelyn's voice in the crowd of kids, saying, " I can't see!"
After we got home, we wrote our letter to Santa and picked out a snack for him. This was the first year that both girls were "all in" in their belief in Santa. We haven't made a big deal of Santa in the past, but I think with the girls in school, they heard all of their friends talking about him, and Santa became very real this year! It was so much fun!
They each took turns saying something to Santa in the letter, and then each of them got to choose a snack for him - Evelyn chose chocolate chip cookies and Bella chose lemon drop cookies. In our house, grape juice is "Daddy's juice" in case Steve's blood sugar goes low, so the girls aren't allowed to drink it. They decided Santa should have the special juice this year!
We got to play our Christmas Eve game, too! This is a fun tradition that we got from the Wires' side of the family, and it also lets the girls open a present early.
They loved the Doc McStuffin's version of Operation!
The adults watched Scrooge's A Christmas Carol, and then headed to bed. In our house, "big people" get excited about Christmas and presents, too! Christmas morning started with stockings. When we were growing up, we always opened stockings, sitting on my mom and dad's bed, so when we're in our own home, we try to keep that going!
I found superhero masks at Walmart and put them in everyone's stockings, so we had a little fun with those.
The stockings were a success! Now, we're on to presents and cooking!
All the ladies in the family, getting ready to start the roast and baking cakes! We put the roast in the oven and started attacking the presents!
Christmas Day was just what Steve and I were hoping for! We loved the time with family, the fun of opening presents, and the girls had an amazing day, too!
The rest of the week, we just hung out and spent time with family. We went to dinner at Mel's apartment, got a babysitter, so the "grown-ups" could go to Maggiano's, and the girls got some extra time with Papa, Mimi, and Rachel.
Dinner at Mel's apartment was awesome!
And having a special night out at Maggiano's was a perfect date night after being snuggled in the house for two days.
Our last "event" of the week was an early celebration of Dad's 60th birthday! We sent him out to a gun range with Steve for about an hour, and got busy, decorating with streamers and making his favorite dessert.
My dad loves baseball and is pretty committed to making sure Henry becomes a die-hard New York Yankees fan, so I got a baseball and put Henry's handprint on it. So cute!
A few last pictures of fun from the week, and then I'm done!
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