We had a wonderful Christmas Eve this year! In the morning I asked the kids to go in and wake up Audrey and this is what I found... thankfully she likes them. It was such a beautiful day! We had had an extended ice storm for about 2 days before, so the sun was a welcome sight, and it made everything just gorgeous. We got everyone geared up and went snowshoeing. Audrey was not super excited about being in the carrier at first, but she really did end up having a good time. James and Noah did so well on snowshoes this year and really enjoyed exploring our property in the snow. Ben tolerated being in the carrier and was pretty glad when it was over;) We got to walk all around the pond to see what is at the back and on the other side now that it is frozen. Snow shoeing was followed by some really fast sledding down our hill and lots of laughs.
During nap time Gabe stayed home to start the Christmas Eve soups while Noah, James and I met some friends at the movie theater to see Frozen. It was a great movie and a really nice way to break the day. After supper we let the kids open one present. In the present was a movie (The Incredibles) and movie snacks (a pretty rare treat:)). We tried to have a movie night, as we thought it would be a fun way to pass the time waiting for santa... what we didn't anticipate (but in retrospect should have) was Noah's anxiety... He was so worried that santa would pass by our house because they weren't sleeping. They were up for maybe 5 minutes past bedtime, and after asking to check the santa tracker about 10 times, we finally stopped the movie halfway through and went to bed... maybe next year:)
During nap time Gabe stayed home to start the Christmas Eve soups while Noah, James and I met some friends at the movie theater to see Frozen. It was a great movie and a really nice way to break the day. After supper we let the kids open one present. In the present was a movie (The Incredibles) and movie snacks (a pretty rare treat:)). We tried to have a movie night, as we thought it would be a fun way to pass the time waiting for santa... what we didn't anticipate (but in retrospect should have) was Noah's anxiety... He was so worried that santa would pass by our house because they weren't sleeping. They were up for maybe 5 minutes past bedtime, and after asking to check the santa tracker about 10 times, we finally stopped the movie halfway through and went to bed... maybe next year:)
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