We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and enjoyed their days with their friends and family.  We love the excitement and traditions of Christmas!  On Christmas Eve our whole family went to Mass together.  Everyone wore their nice outfits but we looked the best of course.

In this picture, I had a Santa tie that played Christmas music and mom made me promise not to play it during Mass.  I kept my promise, but Aunt Lora pressed the button during a quiet moment and we had to all keep our hands over the tie to keep it quiet until the music was over.  Thanks Aunt Lora!

After church we went to grandma’s for dinner.  Mom told us to share these pictures of our aunts because she likes to try to embarrass her sisters.

Our tradition is to open one present on Christmas Eve.  Though it was fun to open one of our gifts, it really isn’t fair to kids to get them excited by opening just one and then sending them to bed.

We put out a carrot for the reindeer and milk, cookies, and a letter for Santa before reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and then going to bed.  We say going to bed instead of going to sleep because that took much longer.

Christmas morning!!!

We all enjoyed spending the day together as a family playing games, eating good food, and enjoying the holiday.  Christmas is such a special time and we can’t wait until next year!