Christmas Eve

Tonight we spent Christmas Eve at Troy's parents home. We have a good time, good food and of course good company. The boys have been so excited for Christmas to get here that we have been bouncing off the walls all day. Luckily it was a nice morning so Troy took them to them to the park this morning and got some of the extra excited energy out.

Linda always has a fun project for the kids to do when we all get together, tonight the kids made Christmas trees.

Miles loves to craft projects, so he loved to do this.

Tyson...not so much. This is about all that he did, and then I finished it for him.

Drew surprised me and did a great job painting his whole pine cone by himself. I am glad that I took his shirt off though. After seeing that he painted his chest and arms.

Anna putting the sprinkles on her trees. They really did turn out cute afterward, but I forgot to get a picture of them all done.

We also got to open presents from Grandpa and Grandma. We started tracking Santa this morning as soon as the boys got up, and as soon as they saw he made it to Canada, they were ready to leave, and we couldn't get home fast enough for Miles.

We quickly sprinkled the reindeer food on the front yard, set out our Santa cookies, opened up our Christmas Eve present and off to bed were the boys. One thing that I do enjoy about Christmas Eve is that there is no fighting about going to bed, reminded to back in bed, 100 excuses for why there should no be no bed time...instead I have three little boys begging to go to bed. I really love my one night a year. :)

Grandma gave the boys their Christmas Eve PJ's this year, and I made them a new blanket.

One cute story about Miles. Our friends the Turner went to their Grandma house for Christmas and Troy has been checking on their house. On the way home Miles told Troy that he needed to leave a note at Braxton's house telling Santa that he went to his Grandma house, so not to leave present at their house, and go to his Grandma house instead.