Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is one of my favorite days of the year.  It is the day we spend with just our family.  We had a kink in the system this year.  Daddy was SICK!  He was so sick.  This really was sad for all of us because he literally spent the entire day in bed.  We tried to make the best of it but we sure did miss him.

Our first thing was sugar cookies.  We had to make some for Santa.  This takes a bit of time so without Jeron's help I was getting nervous we wouldn't fit it all in. Emma was a big help though.  And JJ helped out with Emry. 

 Ellie is such a doll.

 My awesome helper

 JJ has a ton of ideas always, when we make cookies.

 Elsie was all over the place.  She would run in the kitchen, steal some dough and then run out.

 Since Jeron was not eating with us I let the kids pick what they wanted for dinner.  They picked homemade pizza.  We made him look like Santa...kind of.

Dad was able to come out after we ate and lay on the couch while we opened our Christmas jammies.

We started a new show for our family this year.  We watched A Christmas Carol.  The kids loved it.  

Emry was so excited to get her first set of jammies.

Elsie getting her twinner jammies with Emry.  I am so excited about these.

Emma getting her awesome jammies.

Ellie gets to be twinners with Emma

JJ is thrilled with his new duds.

Can I get a drum roll please...

The anticipation is almost to much!

JJ's new christmas pj's

Emma in her cute bunny jammies

Ellie making her jammies look good.

I told you they were darlig.  

Seriously look at that skirt.

They screamed Elsie when I found them.

Last, but certainly not least

Princess Poppins is all set for Christmas night.

Look at her sitting all by herself.

Oh my goodness I could eat her.

The Snowpack looking like they are ready for Santa to come tonight.

I am crazy nuts about tradition.

Even when daddy is sick we still have to fit it all in. 

 For as long as we have been doing Christmas Eve as the Snowpack we have watched Luke II.  We turn the volume off and play Amy Grants Breath of Heaven.  They go perfectly together.  It reminds of  what happened so long ago, and what is really important about Christmas.  It sets the perfect tone. 

 One of the most favorite moments is when we all sit down and read

 Twas the Night Before Christmas.

After I read the story to them, they scurry off to brush their teeth.  While their teeth are being brushed usually there is a jingle bell that goes off letting us know that Santa is getting close. 

We then go into hyper fast mode and everyone hurries off to bed.  They all sleep in the same room.  This year too cool snowboy opted out of this tradition.  The girls still did it. 

Jeron and I set up our part of Christmas.  This always takes so long.  I wrapped 2/3 of the presents before hand.  Good thing!  With Mr. Snow out of commission I was left with the bulk responsibility of it all. JJ ended up staying a for a bit longer than normal so he helped me frost the cookies.  We were able to make Santa a plate.  We watched Christmas Vacation.  He then went to bed.  Jeron and I watched A Christmas Story, and Elf.  We finally went to bed at 3:00am.  I really missed Jeron's help tonight.  He really does a lot of work.  I realized this while working my butt off tonight.

  

Now is the time for the magic to happen!