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Christmas Eve

The kids woke up to this huge box on Christmas Eve from the elves. Elliott and I had no interest in trying to assemble a trampoline all night so we decided to give it to them so we could work on it all day.

They had a lot of fun being Elliott's helpers


Meanwhile Audrey and I were in the kitchen baking some Christmas cookie and getting dinner prepped.

We took a break and headed to Freddy's for some lunch.
We opened up their Christmas ornaments for the year. Audrey got a Mustang because it's her first year at Hildebrant and that's their school mascot. Brandon got a Cub Scout uniform to commemorate his time in Scouts. Ellie got an ornament, I wish it wasn't turned around, that has everyone in our family. We had received an ornament very similar to this one is 2010 but it doesn't have Ellie in and she hates it. It makes her emotional every year when it comes out that she isn't included in the family ornament so we decided we would get her her own special family ornament.
 Elliott and I had a really hard time deciding what we wanted out traditional Christmas Eve dinner would be from here on out. We thought a BBQ would be fun. I'd been testing a few different mac and cheese recipes and we found one that we liked.
Opened up matching jammies from Granny.
Went and got drinks from Starbucks and drove around to look at Christmas lights and listen to Christmas music. Once we came home we watched the Nativity Story and the kids headed to bed. I was adamant about having all our gifts wrapped before Christmas Eve so Pete and I could just chill on watch It's a Wonderful Life. I quickly made a breakfast casserole and we sat down and enjoyed our evening. It was really perfect.

I am so embarrassed that I literally took zero pictures on Christmas. Not one. I don't know what I was thinking, but it was a really lovely day. We woke up around 5:30. Their mains gifts were a sewing machine for Audrey, a go kart for Brandon and a Razor scooter for Melanie. We went and saw Star Wars and then spent the rest of the day chilling as a family. It's sad once it's all over but it truly was a wonderful holiday season. I just feel so blessed to have the family I have and live the life I do.

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