Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

For our Christmas Eve dinner we had ham, funeral potatoes, Rhodes rolls, red and green jello parfait cups and Martinelli's.  We ate the meal by candle light.



Emily thought the parfait cups were fun to stack.



The kids opened some new jammies. (Megan, Tyler and Emily)



Then we acted out the nativity. 



Emily was Mary this year and Darrell was Joseph.



Megan was an angel.  Here she is announcing the birth of Baby Jesus to Tyler, the shepherd, who is holding a broom as his staff.  Megan and Tyler then became wise men and brought the Baby Jesus gifts.  (No pictures of that, though.)



We watched the movie "Maleficent" to kill time and then put the milk and cookies and laid out the stockings.  (On a side note, the kids were SO excited for it to be night time that they got jammies on at 3:15 p.m.)

The kids woke up at about their normal time of 7:30 on Christmas morning.  They had been anticipating "the big day" for so long, and it was finally here.  They were super excited.

Santa Claus brought My Twinn dolls for the girls and a Lego Castle for Tyler.

 

We had this yummy monkey bread for breakfast.



Then it was time to open presents.

Megan



Emily



Tyler



The kids had a great Christmas and were so cute opening their presents.  They would say, "I always wanted one of those" about almost every present.  So cute!

Megan



Emily



Tyler



(I forgot to get the box for Tyler's Hot Wheels track in the picture.)



Tyler worked and worked for hours on this Lego Castle.



I was so proud of him.  He did the majority of it by himself.

 

 

It was a wonderful Christmas Day.  The kids are at the perfect age to be so excited for everything.  They kids were content to play with their toys and I was content to be a mom and absorb the perfectness of the day.  I'm so grateful for the Christmas season--for the opportunity to remember the birth of Jesus, to be with family, to give gifts and to remember what life is all about.