Christmas Eve 2009

Christmas Eve we headed over to Byron and Kathy's to celebrate. The girls stopped for a picture on the bench out front. Then we went inside where they showed off there Santa Baby dresses.

Every year we play a dollar game, but this year we thought we'd mix things up and play with white elephant gifts. But we decided to just let the kids exchange gifts. Angie didn't figure they had any white elephant gifts the girls would want so she made little hats and hair clips. They were a huge hit.

Allie modeling her hat and flower clip.

Kayla in her hat checking out all the different hair clips.

After our game we open the traditional Christmas Eve gift-pajamas. I think Allie likes hers.

Tyler was pretty excited by his pajamas too.

Wow! Kayla's hat even matches her pajamas.

Grandma bought the kids a little fun gift-Slinky's. It was one of Allie's very favorite gifts.

Jason, Kayla, Allie, and Tyler modeling their new pajamas.

Kayla read a cute, good version of the Christmas Story. Then we finished the evening by reading The Wooden Shoes.
The girls fell asleep on the drive home looking at lights. Nate and I were under strict orders to leave Santa a plate of cookies. Here is our proof.

As Nate was carrying Kayla into the house, she asked, "Did Santa come yet? Can we open our presents?"

She then woke up about 3am ready to open presents again. After convincing her to go back to sleep, and answering a wrong number at 3:30, we managed to sleep until 7:30am before little girls starting stirring for real.