more Christmas Eve

So these are in complete backwards order, but if you want to see the true progression of the night just scroll to the bottom and read it that way! After the beach trip we headed home for some more traditional Christmas Eve festivities.

Here are the fruits of our labors over the last few months of planning and shopping and the marathon 5-6 hours of wrapping and assembling. It was well worth it!
That is a disgusting pile of presents!

So we maintained a few traditions and started a couple of new ones this year. This feast below is Dustin's and my Christmas Eve treat to ourselves. Since we don't really have anywhere to wrap and store without the girls seeing or it being a complete pain in the booty we have started just doing it all the night before. And to make things more enjoyable for us we started assembling some of our favorite treats and this is the end result. A FEAST of our favorites while we wrap and wrap and wrap. I will say it does make me look forward to the long night a little more.

Here are the girls on Christmas Eve in all their matching jammies! Ivy looks so old in this picture!

One of the new traditions we started this year was adopting an elf. His name was Ethan and monitored the kids for Santa through the holiday season. Sometimes he would move around the house and sometimes he would leave little treats. Once we even found him in the pantry trying to get into some frosting! What a silly elf! Anyway on Christmas Eve he goes back with Santa to the north pole so it was fun having him around for a few weeks. But he left the girls a special Christmas Eve present cause they were such good girls this year. They girls went out to leave the reindeer food outside and Ethan was standing there with three Build-a-Bear boxes behind him. Inside the girls found a stuffed animal in matching jammies! They were thrilled and so excited to sleep with them that night. Unfortunately Ivy didn't get one and she looks a little confused in this picture below.

One last picture in front of the fire place before it was off to bed.

Here is Dustin trying out Maddy's new Christmas present to make sure she was going to like it the next morning.

And here is Ivy's Christmas Eve dinner.....

We tried to take a picture together in our new jammies as well but a certain little one insisted on being in the picture. But that's okay shes hiding my big hips for me. That is a great Christmas present!

Here is Dustin trying to see if his jammies will really make him a superhero.

The girls opened their presents from each other and then opened up the last night of the 12 Days of Christmas from The Moyes. They were the cutest picture books for each of them filled with pictures of them and their cousins and aunts and uncle and grandparents! They are the best! Thank you thank you grandma and grandpa.

And that concludes our Christmas Eve! Now on to Christmas.