Christmas Eve

Today was our day to celebrate Christmas as a family. We started the day by giving the kids their gifts from us so that we could play with them during the day.

After we got ready, we headed to Marge's Donut Den. Yes, for those of you who are keeping track, this was the 3rd trip there in 4 days. We are obviously not worrying about eating healthy this week! We had to go back today because it is Marge's birthday and the kids made cards for her. Obviously it would be rude to just walk in, hand her the cards, and walk out without getting donuts, right?

This afternoon we played with the new toys and Miriam napped. I think Esther and I played about 20 games of "Guess Who?" and Peter and Casey spent a lot of time driving Peter's remote controlled truck. Then we had our special dinner of chicken cordon bleu (one thing that all the kids will devour) along with sparkling apple juice. We finished our Advent calendar, and then after baths and pj's, we had popcorn, read our new books and opened stockings.  It was a wonderful day!

Tomorrow we are looking forward to going to church and spending the day with Casey's family!

The frog sisters waiting for Peter to
wake up to open presents.

Opening gifts from mom and dad.

Photogenic girl was the only one who would pose

for a shot with her gifts--she was very excited about

her new skort and sparkly top with the striped tights!

Opening stockings before bed.