Christmas eve day was spent getting last minute things done around the house. For dinner we followed our tradition of having build-your-own pizzas and italian sodas. The boys love this, as do I because of the simplicity of it.
After dinner the boys got to open up their christmas pjs, Chase got a santa hat because he didn't want pjs. Then we read the story of Christ's birth from the bible wearing our socks from Grandma Yearsley.
Before heading to bed the boys got to pull all of the gifts out of dad & mom's room and put them under the tree. Last year we started another new tradition of not putting the presents under the tree until Christmas Eve. We feel that it helps us to keep the focus off of the presents and more on the true meaing of Christmas--our Savior.
The older boys were so excited to see what kind of "trap" dad would come up with to let us know when they were sneaking up the stairs to see if Santa had come. It was a another good trap that scared them (as well as dad & mom) with a loud BANG as things went crashing to the floor! We made a deal that the boys would let us sleep until 7:30 and then it was present time! Everyone was so excited to see what fun stuff they would get. We were blessed with many neat and fun gifts. After opening gifts we had Mountain Man breakfast (yet another tradition) and then got ready to go to church. We enjoyed a very nice sacrament meeting focused on the true meaining of Christmas. I have to say that I really love when Christmas falls on Sunday. It is the best way for us to focus on why we celebrate Christmas. The rest of Christmas day was spent loungng in our pjs, playing games, snacking on goodies, and enjoying being with our family (we were enjoying it so much that unfortunately there weren't any pictures taken). It was truly a wonderful Christmas and we were very blessed with so much.
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we missed you but it looks like you had a great christmas I love christmas as well
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