December 25, 2008

Christmas Eve 2008

Today we cleaned the house and got ready for our Christmas Eve celebration! Santa came to visit us tonight and give us a preview to all the excitement of Christmas day! For Christmas Eve our tradition is to have a fancy dinner where we all dress up. Then we do some activity like work on a puzzle. Finally we read about the birth of Christ and acted it out with puppets and sing lots of songs on the piano... and this year to Keegan playing the violin and Josh playing the piano. It was great! It was also SO fun to see all the boys excitement for Santa! They sure rushed to bed that night... not that they could fall asleep too quickly!

We also all have a sleepover every Christmas Eve... it’s always been our tradition!

Santa with the kids!
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Nolan giving Santa a big hug!
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Mia looking at Santa Clause... and look at Keeg and Noli
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Santa & Mia
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Family shot with the great nativity puppets we use each year... Mary made them!
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Josh, Mia, Nolan, & Keegan under the tree
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Rich and Mia love each other!!! It's SO cute!
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SLEDDING!

We also made this awesome sledding hill in our own yard! The boys and the Greenhaulgh's... and of course some of us adults had a great time going down!
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1 comment:

Lindsey H. said...

Oh my goodness - Those kids are so cute! Makes me want to squeeze them to death. Santa came over to my parents' house Christmas Eve and was telling us how cute the Phelps kids were when he stopped by and that Nolan was pretty outgoing towards him. Fun, fun, fun. Can't believe Christmas is another year away! Let me know as soon as you guys decide on a grad school...I can't wait to find out where you're going!