'Twas the Night Before Christmas 2013

 Yikes.  I am sooo behind!!  Okay, Christmas Eve.  It was spent at Grandma Karen's (and Grandpa Harvey's) house :-).  Dinner was delicious and what was even nicer was that once the kiddos finished their dinner (in record time, of course), they all migrated downstairs to play and so us adults got to actually enjoy our meal and one another's company!

Beautiful table...can't wait to eat!

 After dinner Juliana kept everyone busy...literally.  This girl LOVES play-doh (and beads, apparently). Amazing how one little girl can make others do her bidding without hardly having to say a word!

 After dinner we opened some presents....

Christian got some killer cowboy boots!  (They're super cool--I want some!)

Kari got a new puzzle

Juliana LOVED the new Carl in the Park book she received from Great-Gma

Kari got a new Llama Llama book and Uncle Kyle had a good time reading it to her

Even Mom and Harvey got to open a few gifts a midst the chaos of the kids!

Juliana got a new "Baby Mooshka" doll.
"First you kiss it, Daddy..."

"And then you kiss me!"

Emily and Christian loved looking through Uncle Kyle's new Lego book

Love these special ladies....

Kids got new Christmas jammies--
I was sooo excited that I got matchy-matchy ones!!

After gifts we all tried a couple of cheesy pictures...

The kids were actually really heavy!

Can you tell that they're related??

Christian was pretty proud of his beaded chain.

Once the festivities were over at Mom's, we headed home, read the Christmas story in Luke and sent the children to bed!