Christmas Eve 2010

We had a lovely Christmas Eve this year. The day was a laid back lazy kind of day eating party food leftovers and getting ready for the Christmas Eve service....Unfortunately my Dad was really sick, so both him and my Mom were unable to come down on Christmas Eve, they did however join in the afternoon on Christmas day, and I will blog about Christmas day later!

Our family enjoyed the 4PM service at our church, and to be honest I had moments where I had a chin quiver and tears welled up in my eyes. To have all 4 of our children home with us and Addison nestled into my lap during most of the service is a precious memory I won't likely forget. The kids all were well behaved and enjoyed the candle light service. We headed straight home to make dinner and open a present before it got too late.

Here is Howard and the kids before church.


And the kids and I :)

Our 4 little munchkins!

Once we arrived home we were surprised to see that Santa had dropped in and left an early Christmas present for all the kids. This was the first present we have ever seen Addy open. She was very particular how she opened it!

And it took much concentration.

Sweet! New Jammie's for everyone! Although Nate is getting wise, as he asked don't we get PJ's every Christmas Eve? Hmmm you think? It only took you 11 years to realize it! lol!

We also let the kids open their gift from their siblings as we didn't have alot going on that night. I love this look on Addison's face...she was so excited to see "Ni Hao Super" that's what she calls all things Kai Lan.

Funny thing about this gift.....I grabbed it in September as it was on super discount.... well it is in French!!! Ha! So now our sweet girl is learning English and French! lol!

The boys picked out these Barbie's especially for Miss Roo! I thought it was sweet, I had no say in it and Howard let them each pick one for their little sis.

This year has been the year of, lets shake, feel, look, smell and figure out what the presents are. Especially for the boys. So they decided to "trick" each other and wrap their gifts in a "fooler" box, Josh got Crackers!

Whoops! Nope a video game :)

Nate got Lucky Charms!

Nope! Also the same video game!

After opening presents we played with our new toys and snuggled all of the kids into bed. Howard and I stayed up to ensure the boys were asleep, and watched the Nativity movie that came out a year or two ago. Neither of us had a chance to see it, and we both thought it was really well done. Once our movie was over we got to work! And stuffed stockings and brought out the presents. However our boys were still awake!!! That was about 12:30 AM! They were ushered back to bed and finally fell asleep, and wonder of all wonders slept in until 9:45 on Christmas morning! Hallelujah! More on that later!



Here are a couple pics of the girls before our party on the 23rd. They are sitting at the front door waiting for our guests! So cute!

My two little helpers making punch.

Riley wanted me to curl her hair, so while Addy was napping we set up a salon in my ensuite complete with hot chocolate for my client. She sat really still for the whole process and we chatted and had a grand old time. Here is a picture of her hair once we were finished.

I will blog later about Christmas day. Hopefully :)