Christmas Eve 2008

We were very blessed to be able to spend the night of Christmas Eve with Andy's parents, two sisters and their husbands, and of course all four kids!

These pictures were taken a little bit before Christmas (technically), but here are the girls in their Christmas dresses~





On Christmas Eve, the boys were just as cute as the girls in their Christmas outfits! (Andy was cute, too, even though he didn't have a Santa hat...)



The party officially began when Santa came to visit~



He offered to let the kids sit on his lap, but this year the only two willing kiddos were the twins, and they loved it! Can't you tell?



Then the presents that Santa brought got passed out... I'm not sure if Jayden was trying really hard to be sweet and help pass out the presents or if she was trying to grab some extra ones for herself! (Who can blame her!?!?)



Then, once the girls got their gifts from Santa, they were so excited to color they forgot for a while that Santa was sitting in a chair near them~



But, when Santa said he had to get going, he got a big squeeze from Jayden...



And then he didn't get to leave without playing ring-around-the-rosie with Jayden and Papa...



And then when Santa was out on the porch having a little drink with Papa before heading back to the reindeer, we played more with the kids~



And Jayden admired the nativity, where earlier that night she had helped Grandma and Papa and Natalie put the baby Jesus in the manger...



After all that, we went downstairs to watch the little girls open their gifts, which was really impressive because they took their own turns and didn't have any big issues with sharing toys. (Although they watched each other closely!)



And then it was time for dinner... we were so blessed to have a beautiful spread (thanks, Karen!) and for those who like to drink wine, we had our choice of wine from the bottle shown here (or the other one, which was 'Fat Bastard.')



Luckily for me, I don't drink wine, because that would have been a hard choice! We definitely had a Merry Christmas, and we felt very blessed.