On Christmas Eve our activity took us to the Springs Preserve to take a train ride with Santa. We also shared a special lunch together and ran a few last minute errands.
After getting home and eating dinner we had a special Family Home Evening about the similarities of Christ and Santa Clause and read the Nativity. We also did our gifts to Jesus together and then headed to bed.
We have a Precious Moments Nativity set that I set out and let the kids play with. Riley loved playing with the animals and the different figures. Her favorite was Jesus and he was almost always stuffed in her mouth.
Christmas morning came earlier than expected. This is the first year the boys were awake early. They must have been really excited! We had the kids wait at the top of the stairs before heading down to see what Santa had brought.
(We have been lucky that Riley is afraid of the stairs.)
We took a lot of video but not many pictures. I didn't get any of the boys with their gifts. The kids were definitely spoiled but they are really good kids and probably deserved it, well, most of it. Braden got a marble maze and special snow globe from Santa and a pogo-stick from Mom and Dad. Carter got an Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee rescue bot from Santa and Switch and Go Dino's from Mom and Dad. Miss Riley got new lovey's from Santa and A Princess Castle from Mom and Dad.
After opening presents and eating our traditional quiche and orange rolls we loaded in the car and headed north to spend the rest of our holiday with our families.
As we were driving Kameron and I talked about all the Christmas' we've celebrated together and we've decided that as nice as it was just being with our family, we missed having the chaos of our extended family with us. Hopefully we will be able to talk everyone (or at least some) into joining us for Christmas each year.
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