Christmas Eve

I had the entire Christmas Holiday off this year!  This doesn't happen very often so I was very excited!  Working holidays (most notably, Christmas) is probably my least favorite part of my job, but it's what I signed up for when I became a hospital nurse.  Christmas Eve is always spent with my family.  Since the boys were born we've moved the celebration to our house.  So Grandma and Papa came along with Uncle Mike.  We had a great time.  Church was first with Grandma and Papa, Jackson and Tristan really enjoyed the candles at the end of the service.  Once we got home Mike was there!  Karsten and I got the finishing touches put on supper and we feasted.  Louisiana shrimp, cheese fondue, veggie pizza, raw veggies and dip, and of course some sugary goodies.

YUM!

Do you think we have enough presents?  Santa hasn't even come yet...

We always have to start out Christmas with family pictures...

 Grandma and Papa with their grandchildren

 Uncle Mike with the boys

 The "Kids"

Foels Family

Then we got to work on all those presents!

 Tristan got a cool racecar toy

 Mom got a kindle fire!  And so did I later!

 New tractor and wagon for the Tman

 Jackson got a Mobigo (handheld game player for kids)

 Mike trying out his new personalized "Coach Sass" whistle

 Tristan got a Little People set

 A basketball for Jman!

 Tristan in his new jammies, he went to bed early

 This was supposed to be of Mom's scarf but Dad got in the way

 Jackson got his garbage truck!  This is pretty much all he had been asking for.

New socks for Papa!

Christmas Eve was pretty much awesome.  We are so blessed to have such wonderful family.  The boys were getting pretty tired by the end of present opening.  As I said Tristan didn't even make it thru the entire evening.  They were pretty excited about Santa coming the next day.  We even left him a little snack....