Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve came upon us quickly this year, but even with its swiftness, we enjoyed it thoroughly. We started out our day with the opening of the first presents: sibling gifts. We like to let Elle and Hudson open a present from each other on Christmas Eve. It tends to take the edge off of waiting for Christmas to arrive. Plus, when all those pretty presents are sitting so nicely under the tree, it is almost impossible to wait patiently. It is just too exciting. The presents are practically begging to be opened. So we don’t completely torture our kids. We give them one present to help satisfy their craving for tearing paper




After the gifts were opened and admired, we let Elle check the mailbox. She was pleasantly surprised to find a letter and gift card from Santa for Build-A-Bear (one of her Christmas list items). Elle, of course, took advantage of her good fortune, and made her very own bunny.



Next, we went for our traditional ice skating event. This was another first for Hudson. Usually when we go ice skating, Hudson and I stand around in the cold watching Elle and Johnny have all the fun. But not this time. Hudson is now old enough to skate, and skate he did. He was not scared or even a little bit unsure. He just went at it, and had so much fun. And the best part was that he could skate all by himself. Johnny and I were very impressed with his skating abilities. He was so cute and tiny on the ice. And as for Elle, she is quite a pro. She just skates all over the place, and has so much fun. I am glad we started this tradition within our family. It is definitely a highlight of our holiday.



After happily wearing ourselves out with skating, we came home for dinner, read the Christmas story from Luke, opened our new pajamas, set out cookies for Santa, and went to bed.



It was a great Christmas Eve full of the Christmas spirit.