Christmas Eve 2008

We did have a fun Christmas. The weather did put a damper on what would have happened, but i tried really hard to make it just as special this year. Here is a recap of our fun Christmas 2008.

Our Christmas Eve was kind of a quick impromptu from that which we normally do every year...but it turned out soo fun and we all had a blast. I decided to attempt some pics of the boys that night by the tree..It was pretty funny...For some reason my boys get really silly. I feel like they compete for the "silly" picture as soon as they see the camera come out. I can rarely capture them both just smiling naturally..actually little Gavinator does pretty good..its Mr.C that always has to pull out that crazy smile. It always seems to turn into a fight somehow whenever i pull out my camera... but i did manage to get a few... These two will always try to get each other to laugh and that usually starts out good but it will always without fail end up with a fight. They will say words to try to get each other to smile. Usually those words ALWAYS have to do with "pooping" or "farting" or "boogers", and they always think that it is just the funniest thing ever! I also had to attempt taking pics without either one of them laughing their head off, or trying not to beat each other up. They tend to annoy each other really fast! They both love to show off for the camera,so because of that, one child usually ends up mad or crying cause the other was stealing the "lime light"! My two boys have the typical love/hate brother relationship!! hahaha..









We decided that morning that we were going to do something different this year. We ordered Chinese food in. I had set up a "picnic" on the floor by the Christmas tree. It was just magical! The only lights we had on were those from the tree, and it was soo fun to be able to be there with my little family enjoying the spirit of Christmas.

I promise that Mr.C was loving this..though the picture doesn't capture that!

Mr.C was sooo excited all night that he kept asking when he could go to bed that night. He wanted to go to bed at 630 because he said that way Santa would be here faster. After we did our delicious dinner we read the boys the story of Christ's birth out of Luke and Matthew from the bible. It was cute because we have a little Nativity set that they each would hold and while Daddy read, they would act out what was going on with their little Nativity sets. We then did our tradition of opening up the kids Christmas Jammie's. They also get to open up our special Christmas story. I started a tradition of buying one Christmas story that we read before bed that night.

So here is J reading that story to the boys.



You can totally tell by this time..they are both done with picture taking! hehe but i had to keep the camera rolling! Their faces crack me up in this picture!



So we then got the cookies set out for santa. The kids were, for the first time EVER, EXCITED about going to bed! thank goodness..Santa would have a busy night that night. He really needed to make sure both boys were sound sound asleep before he could come to the house. And with that We all Went to Bed!