Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve!! Christmas Eve is so magical.  So much anticipation and excitement for what is to come the next day.  I love it.  We started the morning off with some donuts.  Yum Yum! Kolton helped me cut out snowflakes to hang above the table for our Christmas Eve dinner.  He did awesome!

We had a ham dinner, per tradition.  Brady got off work a couple hours early and so we ate dinner at like 4:30.  We read the Christmas story in the Bible at the table before we ate dinner.  Kolton could hardly wait to open his Christmas Eve present so we did that after dinner.  Both boys LOVED their Christmas Eve jammies.  Bentley thought it was SO cool that his were Mickey Mouse and Kolton loved that his were Nike Elite shorts and shirt.  He loves elite shorts so he was pretty excited to get another pair (he only had one pair).   

 After that we made sugar cookies to leave for Santa.  The boys loved cutting them out with the cookie cutters.  I liked eating the dough.  Haha.  I didn't half the recipe this year for some reason and I totally should have.  We had way too much dough.  We didn't decorate even a quarter of them!

 Kolton was pretty good at his decorating...Bentley not so much.  Haha.  He COVERED his cookies with sprinkles.  Kolton tried to make designs and shapes with the frosting. 

 These were the two cookies that were chosen to be left out for Santa.  One was made by Kolton (the snowman) and the candy cane was decorated by Bentley. 

After cookies we drove around to a few neighborhoods to look at Christmas lights and then came home and put the kids to bed.  Kolton was super concerned that Brady and I were going to stay up and make it so Santa couldn't come.  He kept telling us, "You need to go to bed right after me so that Santa can come." Haha.  It was cute.