Christmas Eve and Christmas Day...

Christmas Eve morning we woke up and made a breakfast casserole. We than all got ready and did a little wrapping of some of the gifts we were giving that night to family. We than decided we better mail Cole's letter to Santa so we took him to Gardner Village and while the girls were asleep in the car with Dad. Cole and I walked around and looked at the Elfs and mailed the letter that they take to Santa that night. (we were a little late on getting that letter, but lucky for us that one drop mailbox at Gardner Village gets it to Santa Express).

We than went and got some In and Out for lunch and than headed to our church to set up chairs for church the next day. From there we went straight to The Bush family Christmas Eve Party. Where we ate first with our appliances of Christmas pasts. Than we read from Luke 2 and dressed and acted it out. Than it was on to opening pajamas and the gift exchange! We came home and Cole and Dailey left some oreo cookies out for Santa and Cole spread some reindeer food out ( he got it from a little girl in his class) than we tucked the kids into bed. Dailey and Lucy did not sleep well that night. It wasn't because of the sugar plums dancing in their head either. They have had some bad coughs. Lucky for us we got rid of the fevers a week before but those darn coughs like to linger.

Kevin was so cute he surprised me by renting the Help DVD to watch later that night as we got the last minute stuff done.  

Christmas Morning we woke and opened the Santa gifts and our Stockings. Than we all got ready for church. We had sacrament at 9:00 so we rushed over. We only made it half way through the meeting before we headed home due to the fact that all the kids were coughing on the people right in front of us and I just could not take it any longer. Which is too bad because I really was excited to be at church on Christmas. 

So we came home and opened the rest of our gifts.  We than went to the Grandma and Grandpa Dearden's where we had dinner at 2:00 and than did our gift exchange after. It was really nice!

Than we went back to Grandma and Grandpa Bush's for another dinner and presents.

I really enjoyed Christmas this year. I loved having it on a Sunday. It was fun to play on Friday night we even made homemade peppermint ice cream. Than have Saturday to spend all day together and than Sunday. It was a constant Celebration. I am so thankful for my Savior Jesus Christ. What a great time to celebrate!