Twas the Night Before Christmas!!!!

CHRISTmas Eve service at our church. I grew up in this church.......was christened here, got married here, both of my babies were christened here and this is where I spent every Christmas Eve as a child (and as a young adult) with my family. I can't tell you how special it is to keep this tradition going with my own children.Each Christmas Eve we open one special present............it's a gift my mom passed on to my brother and I after we started our own families. Inside this box is a baby Jesus (from a nativity) and the book called The Real Story of Christmas. We recycle this gift every year and it sits wrapped among all of the other presents through out the month of December until this special night.

This year it was so fun to have Nathan actually read Twas the Night Before Christmas to Wilson....can I just tell you how awesome it is to have another "reader" in the house. :)
Boys will be Boys!!!!
This is what happens when you ask my two if they will take a few pics in their Christmas pjs before we go to bed..................................

I finally got them calmed down long enough to capture a couple sweet pictures.

And lets not forget the COOKIES!!!!!!! The Man in Red might be disappointed if these didn't get left out for him :)