Twas the Night Before Christmas.....

I can not believe how quickly Christmas seemed to come this year. We haven't had any snow so I think that has made it seem like it was not time for Christmas yet. Tommy's whole family was here this year. His brother was in Iraq last year so this was the first year his side of the family was all together since he got married. We started Christmas Eve off like we always do with a matinee movie. Both sets of grandparents came with us this year. The kids were so excited to have them both with us. We took the kids to see Chipwrecked. We tried to sway them but they were set on seeing it so we went, they liked it but it was so super cheesy this time around it was a bit painful for us adults :) but we still had fun. We headed over to Tommy's sisters afterwards to meet up with the rest of his side. We relaxed for a while before heading out to dinner at Tokyo. It was really good and Caleb amazed us with how much shrimp he ate. We headed back to Shanna's to open up a few gifts. Of course it is always pajamas but the kids still look forward to it. We watched some Christmas movies and baked some cookies for Santa. Aunt Jessica also made some chocolate covered pretzels, which my kids love. We headed home around 9:30 to get the kids in bed before Santa came. We of course put out our reindeer food before heading off to bed. I love the magic of Christmas Eve!!