Christmas Eve is finally here and we are getting very excited for Santa to come! One of the greatest things about the holiday season are traditions! We kicked off our Christmas Eve traditions with cookie decorating.
We frosted a few dozen cookies, but only kept the best ones to leave out for Santa.
After getting our cookie on, we headed to dinner. Growing up, after my family moved away from California, we started going to Chinese restaurants on Christmas Eve. Cory and I, whenever we aren't with family, have decided to get Indian food. It has been a fun tradition.
While eating, we agreed that this tradition might soon die, because we are not sure how easy it will be to sell the idea of Indian food to small children.
The food was great, and the three of us were ready to hit the hay, but before that we had to open one Christmas Eve present. One of the most sacred traditions of Christmas Eve has to be opening up new pajamas the night before Christmas.
In my opinion, this is the greatest part of Christmas Eve. We all got in our jammies, and gathered around the tree while I read the story of Christ's birth in the Bible. I love the account in Luke. Reading the Nativity story is one of our favorite traditions. It helps us remember the reason we celebrate Christmas. Emmy had never heard the story before, and needless to say, she was mesmerized when she heard the good news.
She is so cute in her little jammies!
I think we all look pretty great in our pajamas. Emmy is all snug in her crib, and I think she is on Santa's nice list, so Christmas should be pretty good for her this year!
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