Well, and Merry Christmas to you too!! Part I

Christmas Eve

{everyone gathered around the table to decorate some homemade gingerbread cookies. ok, so not "homemade" but still so awesome! great job, Neil!}

{Paige, the gingerbread men she plans to decorate and the signature "Paige pose"}

{workin' hard or hardly workin - you decide.}

{the final result and the proud owner}


{Neil's creation. Surely this does not surprise anyone.
I'm wondering why he didn't make a gingerbread amp to go with, lol.}

{Jonathan working on a giant gingerbread cookie}

{Ashley and her masterpieces}

***


{The only two who would let me take a picture of them! By the way, I got to help put the nativity scene together that's behind them. It is becoming our tradition to help decorate at the church the day before Christmas Eve.}

{Each Christmas Eve, after mass, we all come home and pick one gift to open. Ashley picked the boots (long story, but we eventually found a pair so she was hip to that gift already) and we decided to let Drew try them on.}

***
Bedtime Prayers

Just before bedtime, we said our Advent prayers and a decade of the rosary before looking in the Advent calendar to find baby Jesus behind the 25th! We took him out, placed Him in the manger and sang Happy Birthday to Him.



***
The cookies!!

{Everyone offered up their favorite cookie for Santa. He wasn't able to refuse them!!}