Christmas Day

We spent Christmas Eve getting ready for the big day. We went to our church’s candlelight service and then all came back to the house for steaks on the set of DW’s grandparents dishes that we have.

After dinner we got the kids ready for bed and set out the cookies & Coke for Santa.

Elf-Elf had left the kids the coolest letter to Santa kit. The kids wrote Santa a letter with their wish list, and then once they’d out it in the special envelope, they were supposed to put it in the freezer. When they got it out of the freezer, they got a letter back from Santa! It was super cute. The kids were totally hyped up and super excited.

After the littles were off to dreamland, me and my Mr. got everything put together and ready for the morning! I LOVE Christmas Eve and the prep of everything. We always put on Four Christmases and eat Christmas cookies while we’re working on everything.

Christmas morning is the sweetest. I could cry when I think about how we won’t have many of them left where the kids are so excited for Santa and the fun that comes with that.

Mamie was as excited for AB as AB was that she got the fish tank she had been hoping for!

The kids opened their gifts and wanted to open every single box and toy and start playing right then! There were lots of gasps and squeals and so much excitement!

We had a fun early morning at home, then went down to Pappy & Nie-Nie’s for our traditional pancakes in our PJ’s.

We opened our gifts in the sunroom around the Christmas tree. Everyone always sits in the same spots, and I don’t think its ever been formally decided on, but we all have our corner/section of the sunroom that we always sit. I love predictability and tradition. The kids got lots of fun things from their grandparents and aunts and uncles. Serious spoiling always occurs on Christmas.

We came home and got dressed for church. We’d debated not going, but it just didn’t feel right for us – plus when I thought about how old the kids will be the next time Christmas falls on a Sunday, we just wanted to be there to worship on Christmas Day.

Tucker and I spent most of the service in one of the Sunday School rooms having a snack and drawing tractors, but at least we could hear what was going on. Ha.

After church, we spent the afternoon at Grammy & Pop’s. Momma cooked a big Christmas lunch and it was delish. Aunt Pam, Uncle Jerry and Emily came over and ate with us. We were all serenaded by Mamie singing “Who let the Dogs Out” on her new microphone. Just your typical Christmas stuff.

The kids opened their presents from Grammy & Pop. Tucker was super excited about his horsey. He named him “Sparky” right off the bat. But the best excited Christmas-day face goes to AB when she and Mamie opened their big gift… a trip to American Girl to pick out their first real AG doll!

We spent the evening at home snacking on cookies and playing with all the new toys.

DW & I didn’t even open our gifts to each other until 10:00 that night when the kids were in bed. That was something different, and might turn into a new tradition.

It was another sweet Christmas. It comes and goes so quickly.

~amw~