Well, it was a good idea:0) It didn't go exactly like I had it all planned out in my head. This is how I saw Christmas Eve...Ryan and the girls and I would be hanging around the house together, wrapping last minute gifts, cleaning up the house a little. The girls would take an extra long nap while I baked a cake. They would wake up, our friends, the Walkers, would come over. The girls would decorate a cake while we all talked about how special Jesus is. We would have a wonderful dinner and then Ryan would read the Nativity Story and the girls would go to bed. Ryan and I would exchange our gifts, watch a Christmas movie and then head to bed.
Well...on the night of the 23rd, I discovered that a creature had gotten into a drawer with all of the stocking stuffers!!! I also found out Ryan had to work. I still had 8 blocks to make (a Christmas gift project) which would take quite a but of time. We headed to Mimi's that night for a party and I was in panic mode. Mimi stepped up and took the girls for the night. I got up early and had all blocks made by 7:30, wrapped most of my gifts, headed to re buy stocking stuffers and was back wrapping more gifts when Mimi called for me to meet her to pick up the girls. I picked them up, threw them in their beds for naps, which they didn't take. Cleaned up my tornado disaster of a house and the Walkers arrived as my 7 cupcakes were finishing up. yes, 7 cupcakes because that's all the liners I had. Hannah and Kailey decorated cupcakes (ate icing) as I finished up dinner...oh, I hadn't eaten a thing since 10 that morning. It was about 5:30 or 6 by the time we ate dinner. they left, I threw Lillian in bed, Ryan read the Christmas Story to Hannah (her most favorite story of all time). She stuck her pretend screwdriver in his ear the whole time he read. Ryan had to wrap my gifts after we put the girls to bed. He had been working all day. We exchanged gifts and watched A Christmas Story...funny. It was a good day. Just not as sentimental as I had hoped for:0)
Here are a few pics from our evening...
Kailey "decorating
Lillian eating her cupcake. 
Chef Hannah
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