Christmas Eve and Day...12/24-25/2009

We wanted to have a fun, relaxing Christmas Eve, so we started off the day at Grandpa Milne's house! The kids went out and started raking his leaves-by the time we told them to come in they had a pile of leaves five feet high!

Next we took the kids bowling! I thought it would be much too busy but it didn't get busy until halfway through our second game! We were all starving after two rough games of bowling, so we headed to the Outback! After stuffing our faces we went shoe shopping at Rebel Sports-the kids each got a new pair of sneakers!




Bailia and Jaden each made a card for Santa, they were so cute. Bailia's even made me cry! She wrote on the cover~ Merry Christmas Santa! On the second page~ Ho...Ho...Ho!!! Merry Christmas Santa. On the final page~ and a Happy New Year! P.S. Tell everyone at the workshop including you, the rain deer and miss clause they did a good job!


Jaden on the cover wrote ~ Merry Christmas Santa Love:J-dog Ho Ho Ho!!! On the inside he wrote~Santa we put out one of each cookies. My favorite cookie is the brownie type one because it tastes like a brownie with powtered sugar! My guess is Santa ate the brownie cookie (wagon wheel cookie) since it was so highly recommended!


Then it was time to pull out the Christmas Pajamas and get ready for bed! I buy the kids matching Christmas Pj's every year-the bigger they get the harder it is to find cute matching pj's! They all seemed to like them, and I thought they looked darling!
Jaden is at gymnastics about twelve hours a week-plus he works out at home-his six pack is proof of his hard work! WOW!













We had a WONDERFUL Christmas! It was a peaceful day spent with each other~who could ask for anything more?! Jaden made the comment that even though we told them it was going to be a really small Christmas compared to years past, he felt like he had as much, or more than ever! It was really nice to hear that, since I spent around $150 per kid~and usually I spend MUCH more than that! I saved money, the kids were more than satisfied, and we all enjoyed the day a lot more than in years past! Merry Christmas to all!