Christmas Eve pictures

In the afternoon we took some of the kids from the preschool to a program at another church. (I didn't include a picture for privacy reasons.) They had a lot of fun!

In the evening we went to church with my parents and sister since it is close. The first picture is of them in front of our tree after the service. I made a big dinner for Brent's parents, my parents and my sister and her family. I wish our house was bigger. It was a delicious meal - if I do say so myself! I love my crock pot for occasions like this where I'm really busy all day and just want to worry about the side dishes when I get home.

One of our family traditions is to open one present on Christmas Eve - always new jammies. I picked up some joke pajamas for Brent so Susie and Mom followed suit. Brent also got some warm lounge pants. Brent's have "HO HO HO" written on the back, Dad's say "Prince Charming" which is a joke from years ago when my mom babysat for a neighbor's little girls and they called him "Prince Charming Johnny". Ric's had a "Merry Chrismoose" on the back. They were all good sports and posed for me. Brandon and Hannah had matching jammies - just different colors. They have monkeys riding on bananas on them. Brandon's fit him perfectly, Hannah's were a bit large in the waist. Who knew that 3T's would be too big on my little peanut.

After everyone left for the night the kids were tracking Santa on the computer. Brandon was quite panicked as he moved into the United States and he still wasn't in bed. The next picture is getting treats out for Santa and the reindeer. I didn't have time to make Christmas cookies this year so we made chocolate chip and called it a day. Since chocolate chip cookies are my kids and my husbands favorite I couldn't go wrong. Santa enjoyed his evening snack. :) It was a fun evening.