The holidays can be a hectic time for everybody and some people feel like they are pulled in a million different directions. For me, I have always gone to two big family gatherings, along with my immediate family's gathering, and Josh is the same way. So, when we got married, we set boundaries for ourselves and for our future family. Christmas morning would be our time together as a family. We also decided to make Christmas Eve full of traditions that we wanted our kids to grow up knowing was "our thing". We started these traditions with Shaw last year and we were blessed enough to do them again this year. I made Santa's cookies earlier in the day on Christmas Eve and we sat them out for Santa, along with his milk. Then, Josh read the story of Jesus' birth and The Night Before Christmas. We ended the night by singing Jesus "Happy Birthday". Like I have stated before, we want our kids to grow up knowing the true meaning of the holiday, but also want to bring in the joyous and imaginative figure of Santa Clause. We had the perfect Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with our little family. Oh, and did I mention that Josh and I woke up at 7 and waited around for Shaw to wake up? We ended up waking him up at 7:30. We couldn't wait any longer!
Santa's milk and cookies, and the books we have read 2 years in a row.
This little guy decided he needed to try out Santa's cookies to make sure he would like them :)
Josh reading the books.
Christmas morning.
He was pretty excited when he saw his toys under the tree!
Playing with some of his gifts. He got very few smaller gifts this year because we decided to go ahead and invest in a nice play set for the back yard which he had already been enjoying a few days prior to Christmas.
Opening his stocking.
Helping the puppies open their stocking.
Silly daddy!
Loving his new hat!
After we opened gifts we were off to one busy day!
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