Christmas Eve

Last night we had our fun Christmas Eve night. We are trying out a new thing this year and that is to eat a Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve and to relax on Christmas Day. I like that. We then had Christmas Eve with Grandma and Grandpa Smith and Uncle Dan. We also had Santa come suit and all. He brought gifts too and we had a blast!!!!!!! The kids were so excited. Michael was amazed, just kept looking and walking up to him very fascinated by the magic that Santa brings. Maddie said that looks like we have a "Santa Dan" . She could not believe that Santa had a present for her in there.!!!!! Spencer was his timid self wanting some help to sit on Santa's lap, but he did go up to sit on his lap and get his special present. Allie said that she has figured out who Santa is and she knew that this was not Santa because Mom and Dad where sitting in the room. She knew that it was Uncle Dan. What a sweetie!!!!! Joseph said to Santa, you are just a Santa Helper because he is too busy on the other side of the world with a ton of Toys. He makes me laugh. I love Christmas and the magic of it all. After the kids said good bye to Santa they spent time with Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Dan. Grandma makes the kids PJ's every year and so we opened them. Then we said goodbye to them and the kids each get to open a present before we go to bed. We read the Christmas Story and sang Silent Night. Then tucked each of the kids into bed. Joseph was having a hard time sleeping he said I am so excited I just can not go to sleep. What a character!!!!! So we sang songs and scratched his back(way we get him to settle down, OT thing). He was finally asleep!!!! We finally finished wrapping presents and put them under the tree and then went to sleep. It was early when the kids awoke. They got up to check if Santa had come, it was 2:30am. Yes they were so excited that they were checking out every thing. Allison decieded to organize all the presents into a pile so that we would know where everything was. As they were doing this I was laying in bed and heard the kids and thought to myself this is crazy, remembering the magic of Christmas and the effects that it had on my sleeping when I was a little one. We did have the kids go back to bed, I know mean parents. Joseph had a hard time falling asleep so David had to Sleep with him. We convinced the kids to sleep until 6:30am. Joseph finally was able to get everyone up and they were so excited about everything. So Christmas Eve was a fun evening!!!!

Next post Christmas Day.