Christmas Eve and Google Earth!

For the past three years or so we have done our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve! It makes for a busy day, but it works out better for everyone. Then Christmas isn't spent cooking all day and we can usually all be together. Now that all of us have other people we need to spend our time with, it's nice to all be together on Christmas Eve! Everyone comes to my house, but my Mom does all the cooking! Works for me!! :)

Grant was so excited that Nana brought his snow boots! We keep them at their house cause we don't ever need them here. We sure could of used them this year! He didn't take these off the entire weekend!

We always go over to my Grandparent's house on Christmas Eve! I didn't take very many pictures this year! My Grandparent's have this Santa that does a cute little booty shake and Grant does a cute little booty shake, so they are a perfect match.

While we were cooking dinner we made Aliya fold and hang up her clothes. She wasn't very happy about that!

Pretty Nana and baby Trey!

After Grandma and Grandpa's we went in the hot tub, showered and started our Christmas Eve traditions. The kids opened their sibling present! It's so neat to see them choosing a special present for each other. We choose names so they just have to buy one present. (There is only three of them, but they have fun picking a name.) They are always very thoughtful in the gift they choose and very grateful for the gift they received! Next was reindeer dust!! And yes, that is snow on the ground! We had a white Christmas this year. Unheard of in St. George! For two weeks Aliya asked for a white Christmas every night in her prayers! She says the snow was Heavenly Fathers gift to her. I think she was right! Next was opening Jammies fom Mommy and Daddy!

We got to talk to Misty and Lorelai on the web cam! So fun to be able to share a little bit of Christmas Eve with them! Then we put out milk and cookie bars for santa! The kids love to write him a note and he always writes them one back!

The big hit of the day though was following Santa all day on Google Earth! Thanks Dad! The kids were so excited to see throughout the day where Santa was and it also helped them to go to bed that night because they saw that he was in Texas and they didn't want him to skip our house!!