Christmas Eve is always such a fun but very busy day! Lots of preparations for Christmas dinner and final wrapping and then we always decorate cookies for Santa and of course Christmas Eve church service. This year we also threw in a new tradition I hope to continue of making Jesus a birthday cake. We didn't go too all out but it was fun to have the kids help me ice the cake. Like I said it was a very busy Christmas Eve but a wonderful one full of traditions and memories made.
We talked about it with Elle and pretty sure we have decorated cookies for probably 5 years now. Ever since she was semi old enough. We were so happy to have Walker who was able to join us this year. Last year I believe he napped while we decorated cookies. He got into it a whole lot and also managed to eat lots of sugar which is no surprise!
Helping Walker decorate his cookies for Santa.
Elle gets more and more detailed with her cookies each year. It won't be long before she is giving Kenny who is our most detail oriented cookie decorator a run for his money.
I get a few cookies decorated but for the most part move around and
help everyone and take pictures and selfies of course!
Kenny concentrating very hard on his present cookie.
Kenny's long arms come in handy when we want a family selfie.
The two best cookie decorators...for now.
The finished products! Lots of good ones!
Elle was super proud of all our work.
Elle chose one to eat later in the afternoon and couldn't resist Kenny's beautiful Santa cookie!
As the afternoon went on Walker was getting pretty cranky from all the excitement. But Kenny and I had made the decision that we really wanted to attend the candlelight service this year. Last year they had an earlier family service that started at 4 but this year they changed it to just one service that was the really good candlelight service. I love it so much and we haven't been ale to go with small children in a while. So we pressed on with going despite the kids not being the happiest. Just a lot going on. We got all dressed and were getting ready to leave for church. Then Walker and Elle got into a little bit of a tif and he scratched her face and he was just melting down. Right as we are leaving out the door we made the game time decision to just stay home and have Christmas Eve dinner and a low key night at home together. Ultimately it was the completely right decision and we really enjoyed our time together for dinner and then getting into our pajamas, saying goodbye to our elf, sprinkling reindeer food and reading Christmas stories before bed. I did have our neighbor come over from across the street to take some pictures of us together as a family since we were all dressed up for church.
Ready to eat Christmas Eve dinner! We even made a plate for Charlie our elf!
Blowing out the candles on Jesus' birthday.
Change into their Christmas jimmies and taking our annual pictures in front of the tree.
Saying goodbye to our elf Charlie before he goes back to the North Pole with Santa.
Cookies and milk for Santa and a note for Charlie to say bye bye.
Santa came!
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