"our Christmas Eve" before Christmas Eve

This year the we really wanted to go be with my parents and siblings for Christmas. But, we really didn't want to bring all of the gifts up-honestly I don't think everything would have fit in our car if we had wanted it too. So, we had our own little Christmas before Christmas. We pretty much got to celebrate Christmas all week long--which the kids were just fine with. They totally got spoiled with presents, but I know that they were the happiest just being able to see their many Grandmas and Grandpas and cousins!

It has been a tradition for as long as I can remeber that on Christmas Eve you would get to open one present, and that present would always be pajamas. So, we had all the kids on the couch and they were super excited to open their one present when Jaxon says, "Yay I am so excited, but I hope it isn't pajamas." What? Lucky for us and him he changed his mind once he saw that he got STARWAR pjs.

After the pjs had been put on the kids left out some cookies and milk for santa-along with carrots for the reindeer. We made sure to leave out oreo cookies for santa - since he told the kids in his return letter that they were his favorite!