Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was so much fun this year with two instead of 1! Will was super into leaving cookies (and carrots for the reindeer) out on the counter. The entire month of December he was scared to come out of his room in the middle of the night for fear that Santa might see him and then decide not to bring presents. In our house we have a little Santa's workshop in our guest room... Santa can't carry all the presents in his sleigh, so he drops things off sometimes in the middle of the night in the guest room... and he also fills Will's train each year as well. So anyway, because of this fear of leaving his room and Santa seeing him, we had a few middle of the night's with a baby awake because he used the bathroom connected to his room instead of our bathroom to pee. We have him use our bathroom because he's not the quietest child in the middle of the night :) But anyway, back to Christmas Eve! We filled up milk for Santa and filled his plate with cookies, and Will wrote a letter asking Santa to leave him a cookie or two and a sip of milk... so cute! The kids wore their matching elf pj's and even posed for some pictures in front of the tree before Alyssa had to go to bed. Will's excitement this year was seriously too much fun. I just love this age... the understanding, the wonder, the imagination. I can't wait until they both share that same wonder and excitement over Christmas!!
 

These are pictures of my present from Aaron and the kids this year.  They are cute little hand-made cakes. Each came with a fortune wrapped around it.  Everything, including the box, was hand-made... and they even chose the color purple for the outside of the box because they knew it was Mommy's favorite color  :)  We had to freeze some of the cakes because we didn't get them eaten quick enough because of all the holiday treats we had.... I can't wait to pull them out and start eating them again!