Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve morning delivering cinnamon rolls to family and friends. We headed to the 4pm church service at Munger Place with Kevin's parents and the Hales. 

The boys did pretty good sitting though the service - luckily they offered childcare for Hayden. 

After church we came back to our house to make pizza!

These little guys were HUNGRY so we let them eat first. 

Left: Jimmy's Italian sausage & caramelized onions  Right: mozzarella, mushrooms, tomato & arugula

The Hale kids all made their own mini pizzas!

Ryan loved tossing the pizza dough

Love this little lady!

A little hot cocoa in our new santa mugs from yiayia!

Silly kiddos! They loved playing around with all the funny props!

Of course we had to run outside and sprinkle reindeer food in the yard...

And then these three did some last minute drawings for Santa! So sweet :)

After the kiddos were nestled and snug in their beds - we got to wrapping :) 

Christmas Eve is exhausting...but it's all worth it!

Can't wait for those sweet kiddos to wake up in the morning! 

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve afternoon we headed to church with the Hales and McDonoughs. The McDonough's church has a family service that works out perfectly for all of us. 

Ryan and Grayson did surprisingly well for the hour - Ethan even took Ryan and Audrey up to the front to drop off their donations! Big kids! Ryan was so proud. 

After church we headed back to our house for some brats & tamales. Yes, such a random combination but no one could decide what they wanted so we had both. 

The brats were from Kuby's and the Tamales from Luna's - everything was delicious!!! After we ate we decorated some cookies!

And after Ryan decorated his he wanted to eat it...so he did. 

We had a lot left for Santa!

Sarah took Ryan and Audrey outside to leave some food out for the reindeer!

Soon everyone headed home and we got the boys ready for bed.  Ryan and I read listened to The Night Before Christmas, a book that his Pro Yiayia and Papu recorded in their voices for him. It's so fun to hear and he loved it!

After the story we set out some milk and cookies for santa and Ryan headed up to bed

Once Kevin had the boys tucked away, Santa came....

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

And Santa's gifts were wrapped in red!

Luckily we didn't have any assembling to do so we were able to relax and watch a movie!