Christmas eve was full of making new traditions for our family and carrying out ones from when we were kids. We all made it to church on Christmas eve and the girls did great sitting in the service with us. I was a little nervous about not being able to leave the kids in the nursery and having to bring them in, but we figured with four adults and two kids we had them outnumbered and would be able to keep them entertained. Reagan could not keep still but she never cried and enjoyed all the music and candlelight.
All dressed up and ready for church!
On the way home from church we drove around a little bit and checked out the Christmas lights in the neighborhood. Then we came home and put out some food for Santa's reindeer. We, of course, wanted Santa and his reindeer to be able to find our house, so we scattered some reindeer food made up of oatmeal and glitter across the ground. Hannah didn't quite understand that this was for Santa's reindeer, but instead fed the light-up reindeer in the front yard.
We picked out some special cookies to leave for Santa and sat down around the Christmas tree to read a Christmas Story about baby Jesus and Twas the Night Before Christmas. Hannah was just so excited she could not get herself to sleep. She was awake up in her room until about 11 p.m. We just couldn't wait for Santa to come!!
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