Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we had a quiet dinner at our house and then pulled English Crackers. Crackers are like decorated tubes with a firecracker, prize, joke/game, and paper crown inside. We read a nativity story and with much ado the children got new pajamas and (finally) went to bed! In the picture below note the cookies and milk laid out for Santa's imminent arrival. Visions of Sugar Plums Danced in Their Heads--Clement Moore Can you tell in the above photos who is really not sleeping? You guessed it! Daughter in the middle was waiting up for Santa...Mom was laughing at my boy asleep in his crown and so I had to snap these photos.