Christmas Eve

I have so many pictures that I want to post so I'm going to separate Christmas eve and Christmas day.  We started out Christmas eve with Keith's family.  For some reason all of my pictures turned out blurry.  We had lots of good food and fun visiting, singing songs and exchanging presents.  The kids were thrilled to get pillow pets from Grandma and Grandpa.  They dressed up as Mary and Joseph while we sang, "Away in a manger."  Then Caitlyn and Jonah sang, "I know that my Savior loves me."  They did such a great job. I was so proud of them.

Next we went to my parents house for more good food and visiting.  The kids acted out the nativity.  Caitlyn and Jonah loved being Mary and Joseph with Wyatt as the baby Jesus.  Wyatt was a little fussy because it was nap time, but he was a good sport. 

Caitlyn and Jonah sang, "I know that my Savior loves me," again.  They did so well.  This was Caitlyn's gift to Jesus.  She wanted to teach people about Jesus so she wanted to sing a song about him.  She was really nervous about it, but they both got up there and sang every word and it was so sweet.  She told me earlier that she didn't want to sing the song because I would just cry and hug her.  Jonah's gift to Jesus was to obey his mom and dad (which he did pretty well), be nice to his brother and be reverent.   The kids also helped me shovel snow for people as one of their gifts to the Savior.

I love all the traditions that my family has on Christmas eve.  It was my favorite day of the year as a kid and now I love sharing it with my kids.  Here they are doing the grab box.  Before that we played Christmas bingo and then they all opened their gift from their cousins.  By the time Christmas eve is over they really don't need any more presents. 

We gave the kids their usual new pajamas on Christmas eve.  They love to get new pajamas.  They all looked so cute.  Caitlyn and Jonah were so excited to go to sleep with their new pillow pets.  Poor Caitlyn was so excited she couldn't sleep.  I kept checking to see if she was asleep and finally at 11:00 PM she fell asleep.