Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning!

 Christmas is here!  

We spent Christmas Eve baking, packing (for our trip the next AM), church, driving through a light show, snuggling on the couch, and opening a few presents early.  

We tracked Santa online:

Parker put Santa's cookies and milk out:

And... Santa came!

Christmas morning!

They always come down the stairs in this order, chanting "Christmas! Christmas!"

Santa left a note!

Heading to the basement.

It was a great Christmas!  Later that morning, we picked my mom up and headed down to Florida!  More on that soon.

Leading up to Christmas

 This Christmas season was... a bit different.  Not being able to be in the schools like normal, helping out with parties and activities and all was weird.  Not doing the typical church Santa/activities or Six Flags Holiday visits or things like that was strange.  Plus, my kiddos are getting older, so they are beyond most of the fun little craft things or Christmas activities. :( But, we tried to make the best of it all!

Here's some of the fun we did:

Gingerbread house building:

Christmas decorations around the house:

We put the tree in the basement this year!

Taylor's room

Christmas Eve snow!

Drive-thru light show:

Santa came to the neighborhood:

Making Christmas cookies with the cousins:

Christmas party at Taylor's basketball coach's house:

Elf shenanigans!

Playing Pokemon with the elf.

Parker's Christmas party:

Random:

Taylor getting off the bus in her Santa hat.

JOY!

 Our 9th annual JOY pics!

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