Christmas Eve

Bracken came up with the idea for us to have a Christmas Eve Feast.  Everyone got to choose what they wanted.  I missed taking pictures of most of the preparations but one of the requests was watermelon so here are the girls helping Bracken cut it up.

 Lyla discovered her ability to get around the kitchen counter tops with the stool.  She spent the night pushing it from one place to another and climbing up to help. With me having heart attacks and running to save her from a perceived imminent fall, thankfully none happened.

Hayes & Kamri made the place cards

 and The FEAST.  Consisting of Turkey, Rolls, Potatoes, Corn, Candied Yams, Orange Chicken, Rice, Lasagna  Edamame, Apples, Oranges, Watermelon, Grapes, String Cheese and Hayes's version of a Crepe (tortilla with nutella). To drink we had Egg Nog or Sparkling Cider.  A very random assortment of food but it was delicious and it has been nice to eat the leftovers today!

The kids opened their Christmas Pajamas from Great-Grandma Anne. 

 Then they searched for the Christmas Mouse who leaves a box of books for them to find.  They found it was a lot harder to find the box at our house rather than having all the cousins helping to find it at Mimi's house.

 Then off to bed.  Although this little Cindy-Lou Who wandered down because she couldn't fall asleep.  Thankfully, the child who hasn't reached the age to know when they are catching Santa!