Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Eve

Susie meets Eva ~


Sus reading to all four girls ~


Making Christmas cookies (yes, I now realize I had the wrap on wrong - I've adjusted the straps and my back feels much better now :) ) ~


The girls helping with cookie making ~


Sus multi-tasking - talking on the phone, holding Eva and giving Jack a ride on her foot ~


One of my best friends, Allison, with Eva ~


Getting ready to watch personalized messages from Santa (Jack wanted to be first and was very sad) ~


My beautiful oldest daughter ~


Watching Santa messages ~


Apparently Santa DOES see everything! D'oh!


Jack gets a turn ~


Oh my goodness! Santa saw that?!? ~


Beth watching her message ~


Megan watching her message (Eva was very insistent that she needed to eat right at that moment, so Meg watched her message on Susie's lap) ~


Opening Christmas pjs ~


As we do every year, Papa read "the Night Before Christmas - in Texas that is". Jack was a bit hyper ~




Reading "The Night Before Christmas" illustrated by Tasha Tudor, with Jack running around pretending to be Superman ~










Our obviously kid-decorated Christmas tree :) ~


Susie resting on the floor under the slide while listening to the Christmas readings ~


Jack and Travis ~


Nona, Kiki, Molly and Kylie ~


Rob and Eva ~


Molly and Kylie ~


This year we allowed the kids to open an extra present on Christmas Eve - Pillow pets!!! (They've been asking for them for at least 6 months) ~


We usually have all the grandkids sit with Papa while he's reading, but Eva was sleeping, so we waited until she woke up to get a picture of all five grandkids with Papa (Nona wanted to wait until her hair was done to get her picture taken with the grandkids) ~


The four older kids with their pillow pets ~


Travis, Kiki, Nona, Eva and Molly ~


Nona and Eva ~


The stockings were hung by the chimney with care ~


Opening stockings ~


"My very own calendar!!!" (Megan's been asking for one for several months) ~








Eva, having been awake since 3am, was very tired. I, also having been awake since 3am, handed her off to Rob and went back to bed ~

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