Christmas Eve

Christmas's are just getting more and more fun the older the girls get but we still aren't sure of what traditions we want to have be part of our Christmas celebration every year. With last year being our last year to travel to be somewhere else for Christmas this year was the 1st year we were really trying to figure it out. This year was also our year for Christmas with the Brower's. We made plans to do dinner at Chuck o Rama but when we arrived they were closed so Joy quickly thought and decided we should see if Texas Roadhouse was open and luck for us they were. I was really glad we had decided to go out since the day had been really busy and I would have been majorly stressed trying to cook for our group. We all had a great meal and great conversation.

 Then we headed off to the Christmas Village in downtown Ogden. The weather was pretty warm considering but the weather that day had been warmer and so the snow had melted and refroze making everything icy and really dangerous. So we carefully wandered around for about an hour before heading back to our house.

 Our little family with big personality we had to retake the first picture since Hallie's hands were in Grace's face....can you see the attitude?

 Once we got home we let all the kids open their Christmas Pjs. The girls were really excited to actually open a present they have been staring at for about a month

Hallie was so in love with her princess pjs and twirled and danced around the remainder of the night

Gracie alos liked her pjs so much she tried to put them on over the clothes she was wearing...lol

Joy also bought the kids pjs Hallie also really liked her Tangled nightgown she got.

 Our girls in their PJs

 All the cousins and their pjs

 And of coarse my girls wanted to do a silly face(we always have silly face pictures after they smile and look at the camera)

 After everyone else headed for home we got ready and headed for bed anxiously awaiting Santa's arrival. The next morning this is what we found.

 Gracie's

 Hallie's

 Mommy's

 Daddy's

 It has been fun to try different things to see what traditions we want to have with our little family as well as with both of our extended families I think we will continue to try thing until we find a few we love. Until then...what are your favorite traditions?