Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve

Every year we start out our Christmas Eve day by meeting up with my family for breakfast to celebrate my mom's birthday. It started out as a breakfast to honor her (and it still is!) but I'm pretty sure it's a tradition we all look forward to and love. It's also the only time of the year I allow myself to order the stuffed french toast from Ihop--so good!! My mom is a beautiful 60 year old woman this year. 60! She's so young!
With no plans for the afternoon, we headed to the crazy mall and bought me a shirt :) We halfway attempted to go see a movie with the Holmans but I was tired and they were already home so I didn't push it. Instead we came home, relaxed, and delivered fudge to some neighbors. I stopped by my mom's house at just the right time because they had just finished eating some soup and had some leftover--dinner for me!!
We met up at my mom's house with the rest of the fam for ice cream and brownie pudding cake. Of course there was a beautiful round of "Happy Birthday" to my momma. Did you know a hot pudding cake melts wax candles?! HA HA! That didn't stop us from enjoying our dessert :)
My mom opened up her gifts and we all chatted for a bit before heading out to do our own Christmas Eve thing.

Rylan has been so excited to open gifts. We only open one gift on Christmas Eve--a book. Rylan is in need of pajamas that fit so this year we also got them some jammies. So they had two presents to open and they couldn't wait!





Rylan looks happy in this picture, but he really wasn't too thrilled with his two gifts. "A book?" "Clothes?" He tossed both of them to the side and sat there staring longingly at the other gifts under the tree. His book was 'Art and Max' and I know he's gonna love it! And I loved Ry and Asher in their matching jammies :)

I think Tyce needs matching jammies next year!

We read their new books to them before bed and then tucked them in for a good night's sleep. Such a fun day!

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