Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was fun and crowded, with a little drama mixed in. We generally spend Christmas Eve with my husband's side of the family - and this year we all piled into his Grandpa's semi-empty house for our annual dinner and Nativity "play". (I'm using the word PLAY loosely here.) We ate lots of food and the kids ate way more candy than they should have since their Grandpa kindly set out dishes of it. There was a pretty steady flow to the M&Ms and Skittles.

I don't usually put myself in here, but what the heck!

After dinner, we got the kids dressed up in their Nativity costumes and attempted to get them to re-enact a bit of Luke 2. We're not particularly organized, and there's never a great place for a stage - so it's usually interesting. Sophie got to be Mary this year, she was very excited. Abby was an angel and Alice was a dog - or some sort of barnyard animal that wears a dog costume.

After the play was declared finished, there were presents galore - with children fighting over toys and wrapping paper strewn about the room.

Snuggies all around for the grandkids!

It was a good evening, just crazy as usual. Tom's brother, at some point, announced to the room that his wife had peed on something that morning. We knew where he was going with it, but isn't there a little bit better way to announce to the family that you are expecting your first child? Now we have another thing to tease him about. ;)

That's about it for Christmas Eve. The kids stayed up way too late - especially Alice. I put her to bed sometime a bit after 9 and she was too worked up to fall asleep. I think I stopped hearing noises from her room sometime after 1 AM.