After we baked our cookies and then Daddy helped Lucy with the icing.
Grammy, Poppa, and Mamaw came over and stayed with the kids while Michael and I went to church to do Communion. When we got home it was time to do a little cleaning up around the house so we would be ready for Santa to come. I also snapped a few pictures of the kids in their cute Christmas shirts.
His facial expression goes so well with his shirt!!!
Here's Charlie's "nice" face!
We also got to see Charlie's "naughty" face a little later! He "accidentally" started opening one of his presents. . . .
We went to the Christmas Eve service at Lewisville Methodist. This is all I ever want for Christmas - a chance to sit like a normal family, all together in a church service. It's such a crazy, chaotic experience with these three, but I look forward to it so much. This year, I was surrounded by sweet little voices, singing along with the Christmas carols and it was just the most precious thing!
The whole service, Charlie and Alex kept asking when it would be time to light the candles!
He loves his candle - he is just very serious about it! :)
I took this right as Michael blew Lucy's candle out!
When we were finished with church, we came home to have dinner. Michael and I also decided that we should go ahead and let the kids give each other the gifts they got for each other. Normally, I would make them wait until Christmas day, but since tomorrow morning promises to be a little hectic with our church schedule, we went ahead and did it this evening.
The kids were SO sweet with each other as they opened their presents. They seemed just as excited to see their sibling open the present that they got for them as they were to open their own presents!
I was so touched by how appreciative they were of the presents they got. All throughout the rest of the evening, they would thank each other (unprompted!) for their presents and kept saying how much they loved what they got. Moments like these where they are so loving to each other just melt my heart!
After dinner and a little playtime, we had bath and story and then bed time. I tried to snap a picture in Christmas PJs, but this was the best I could do!
Lucy set out cookies and milk for Santa so that he would make sure to stop here!
And as you can see, he sure did! I hope everyone will be excited with what they see in the morning!
THe kids will have a little playtime in the morning and we'll have breakfast with bacon (requested by Alex) and sausage (requested by Charlie) and then it's off to our two churches! Merry Christmas, everyone!
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