Christmas Eve

We celebrated Christmas as a family on Christmas Eve morning - it just worked out better to do it on Christmas Eve so we weren't in a hurry on Christmas morning.  I had originally planned on making a yummy breakfast for everyone...but the kids were uber excited to get to the presents under the tree and only wanted cereal - because it was faster!  Sounds good to me...although I did throw in some cinnamon rolls!

Presents are all wrapped and ready for the kids to dig in!

Ready for presents - but doing the obligatory sibling picture in front of the tree!  ha!

Brooke was hilarious this year - she totally got into unwrapping presents!  Quite a change from last year.  However, she not only wanted to unwrap her gifts..but everyone else's!  Needless to say, we opened up gifts a bit quicker this year instead of savoring each person's gift or else Brooke would have unwrapped them all!

Quite possibly Ben's favorite gift this year!

Brooke LOVES the new doll she got from her cousin Allie.  The doll goes where ever she goes!  

Feeding her doll some chicken!  :)

What a wonderful morning together....after presents then we were off to the movie theater to watch Frozen with all the cousins.  After a stop at the bakery...Oma insisted she get cookies/hot chocolate for everyone, then it was back home for a bit before we trekked back to Oma & Opa's house for dinner and then on to church to celebrate the real reason for the season.  Phew!  What a fun day!  :)