Christmas Eve

We had a fun Christmas Eve this year. We started by doing cookies for Santa. I cheated this year, and bought pre-made sheets of dough. Man was it so much cleaner and easier. 

 Then we decided to go see the new Star Wars movie. We were worried that with it being Christmas Eve, it would be super packed. SO we scrambled and rushed there to get this....

 Haha, but it was still fun.

 Decorating cookies after the movie.

 Then we had our classic Christmas Eve dinner. We broke out all the best. Kids refused to eat most of it (of course), but its tradition right.

 They rushed to get pjs on before we could stop them. So they were already in pjs when they opened their first gift of Christmas.

 When they initially opened them up, everyone was excited about their pjs. Even Brielle- but as this pictures shows, that excitement didn't last. She through a fit immediately after putting them on. Silly part is, she loves them now and wears them almost every night. Stink'n girl.

 The funny part with this picture is she was still super grumpy but I told her we couldn't get her in the car if she wasn't going to smile for a picture. So no joke, seconds before the picture, she's frowning, and we take the picture and she immediately goes back to frowning.

 We gave them all their Christmas light scavenger hunt papers. So they looked over them before we got in the car.

 We were out on the road for over 2 hours. Longest we've made it in a couple years. Kids loved it. There were some good light shows too. When we got home the kids put out reindeer food in the grass. We threatened all the kids that they HAD to go to bed immediately if they wanted Santa to come.

 We went to our room for awhile. Santa didn't come till super late. But he did show up with lots of goodies this year.

 Cambree got a new sewing machine, razor scooter, rollerblades, New Cinderella barbie doll and of course her yearly book.

 Ridge got his guitar, rollerblades, and his yearly book

 Brecklynn got an American girl doll and bed, Live monkey, roller blades, and her new book.

 Brielle got an American Girl doll too, trunk of new dresses, roller skates, and a new book.

 This was funny- this is what Curtis put up for the kids in the hall. It appeared to work.