Christmas Eve Magic

Christmas is magical when you have young children.  Everything is exciting. 

We spent the morning decorating cookies for Santa and playing with Blocos.  Little Man LOVED Blocos when he was younger.  Joel brought them out this morning and they were a hit with all of them.  Even Little Man was excited to make some creatures, too. 

 This is the face of a boy who doesn't want to share his cookies.

We watched Grinch in the afternoon and they kept looking at santatracker.google.com to see Santa's progress around the world.  They checked it all day long to see what country he was in and how many gifts he had given out.  After dinner we had our yearly family devotional after they opened their Christmas pajamas. 

 For the devotional Little Man played an arrangement of Joy to the World on the piano.  Little Lady read to us A Charlie Brown's Christmas.  BB wanted us to sing along as he played Up on the Housetop, and then Little Guy just had to have us sing along with his Jingle Bells.  We sang some more around the piano and then read the Christmas story together. 

 Our family game this year is Sushi Go Party!  The kids were skeptical at first but they ended up liking it by the last round once they got the hang of it. 

BB made sure Santa's cookies were labeled and put right next to the fireplace before he went to sleep.  (PS- could he look any more like a young Joel in this picture?!  I can't get over how much he looks like his dad).