Instead of making Santa some cookies, the kids decided to make something with fruit. We still had to give him cookies though, so we decided to make a fruit pizza. That way there are still sugar cookies involved. :-) As you can see, whenever there is food around, Tater is VERY interested in participating!
Once the cookie crust was done, they added the whipped cream "sauce" and added the fruit toppings. We had pieces ourselves for dessert at lunch and, boy!, was it good!
We had to hang our Santa Key on the door, so he could get in last night. Would hate for him to show up and not be able to deliver the presents!
They all wrote down what they wanted for Christmas and stuck them in their stockings for him.
It was all fun stuff that day, but the thing that Livie asked about, easily, 4,509 times was when they got to open their present!! They each get a special gift on Christmas Eve. I always get them books, but they still weren't sure that's what they were getting. You can tell they are just a little bit excited here. ;-)
Amazingly, they did a quick change from the last picture to this one. That's because shortly after opening their presents, we had to get ready for the Christmas Eve Service. But, they wanted to show off what they got. Madie got a "Sugar"American Girl dog and postcard set. Livie got a "Honey" dog with a puzzle book, and Noah got the latest "Big Nate" book, which are his favorites, and a joke book by Phineus and Ferb.
Isn't our church beautiful on Christmas Eve??! Here the choir is singing.
After some singing and a great message, we lit our candles and sang a couple more songs. This was the first year the kids got to hold one themselves. It made Noah a little nervous to be around all that fire, but he did a good job. Pete helped Livie hold hers.
Madie held hers all by herself.
We gave out a bunch of hugs and "Merry Christmas" greetings before heading home and finishing up the last of our traditions. We put out milk and water and the pizza for Santa. We read "The Night Before Christmas" and said goodnight. We usually read the rest of the Advent book, but it was getting late, so we thought about reading the whole thing today.
Here was the tree after Santa dropped off his presents. I took it in the middle of the night and I thought the lights looked so cool like this.
They woke up to quite a nice stash of gifts! Thanks, Santa!!!
We had to hang our Santa Key on the door, so he could get in last night. Would hate for him to show up and not be able to deliver the presents!
They all wrote down what they wanted for Christmas and stuck them in their stockings for him.
It was all fun stuff that day, but the thing that Livie asked about, easily, 4,509 times was when they got to open their present!! They each get a special gift on Christmas Eve. I always get them books, but they still weren't sure that's what they were getting. You can tell they are just a little bit excited here. ;-)
Amazingly, they did a quick change from the last picture to this one. That's because shortly after opening their presents, we had to get ready for the Christmas Eve Service. But, they wanted to show off what they got. Madie got a "Sugar"American Girl dog and postcard set. Livie got a "Honey" dog with a puzzle book, and Noah got the latest "Big Nate" book, which are his favorites, and a joke book by Phineus and Ferb.
Isn't our church beautiful on Christmas Eve??! Here the choir is singing.
After some singing and a great message, we lit our candles and sang a couple more songs. This was the first year the kids got to hold one themselves. It made Noah a little nervous to be around all that fire, but he did a good job. Pete helped Livie hold hers.
Madie held hers all by herself.
We gave out a bunch of hugs and "Merry Christmas" greetings before heading home and finishing up the last of our traditions. We put out milk and water and the pizza for Santa. We read "The Night Before Christmas" and said goodnight. We usually read the rest of the Advent book, but it was getting late, so we thought about reading the whole thing today.
Here was the tree after Santa dropped off his presents. I took it in the middle of the night and I thought the lights looked so cool like this.
They woke up to quite a nice stash of gifts! Thanks, Santa!!!
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