Our Christmas Eve was pretty mellow as Jon worked a half day. While I got dinner ready, Collin and Avery watched a show. Collin loves her SOOOO much. He always wants to snuggle up with his big sis!
After lounging most of the day, we got dressed for a 4:00 candlelight church service. The kids were so well behaved! Collin kept pretty quiet, but just wanted to climb the stairs over and over. Here we are all dressed up....
Also a picture of our tree with all the gifts PRE-Santa!!! Our friends and family were so generous to our kids. I hadn't been putting things out as they arrived because I knew Collin would get into them, but I did this on Thursday, and once Avery got over the excitement of seeing these gifts, she got very concerned that Santa wasn't going to come because there was no room under the tree. We had to do a little rearranging so she would sleep Christmas Eve!!
Although Avery spent much of the past few weeks on the naughty list (probably due to all the Christmas cookies we've been baking and eating), Santa did indeed come to our house. He even left this letter to Avery telling her how he is happy when she's nice to her brother and shares her toys!
He also stuffed Avery's stocking full of princess and hello kitty socks and other necessities...
Collin was amazed by the cat piano he got from Santa. It actually plays notes in "meow's". Awesome!!!
He also had fun playing with his new ball popper. Sadly I did not take too many pictures after they got through Santa's stuff. It was chaos between Collin's fussing then finally napping and Avery asking 2000 times if she could open just one more before Collin woke up.
Later, we went to dinner at our friends Beau and Sarah's house. We were there 2 years ago as well and have a similar picture of Avery and Rory in this chair. This time Collin joined in to watch a movie while Sarah prepared a huge dinner.
She also set a beautiful table...
The kids even had sparkling juice...
Dempsey the dog picked the perfect spot right below Collin. Although he did not drop much for the dog. I'm pretty sure Collin actually ate more than me.....
After dinner, the kids burned off some extra energy playing chase and tackle...
Collin even got in on the chasing. He was so loving having a boy to play with!!!
Looks like Avery was loving having a boy around too :)
After all the cookies and the big Christmas feast, we all needed a hike that next morning. Even though it was raining, it was good to get out for a quick walk. And Collin looked adorable in his new hat...
After all the cookies and the big Christmas feast, we all needed a hike that next morning. Even though it was raining, it was good to get out for a quick walk. And Collin looked adorable in his new hat...
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