Christmas Eve Traditions

After we came home from church on Christmas Eve we opened our special Christmas Eve gifts, which always contain a new pair of pajammies to wear on Christmas night and a special new ornament. This year the boys got Mario pajamas (because they are obsessed with video games-even though we don't have any) and a new baseball ornament. They loved them!
Then we had an appetizer dinner in the living room and watched Miracle on 34th Street.



Here they are tracking Santa on the Nordic tracker. Hurry and get to bed he's crossing the Atlantic!!


First, we must get Santa's cookies and milk ready. We made monster cookies this year(it's what the boys requested) which contain practically every cookie ingredient known to man.

Nicholas didn't want to forget the reindeer and wrote Santa a special note.They promptly went to bed and were so excited!! They couldn't believe how Santa could get into our apartment without a chimney. We explained he has a universal key for those without a chimney(although he prefers the chimney route-I know we take it a bit far but it's so fun!!!)