Christmas Eve Party

I will add pictures later, but at least this way I can continue to catch up on my posts.

We usually host an annual Christmas Eve Party for our siblings and parents. We have dinner, games and a special visitor. This year was especially fun for us as Santa was making a special announcement.

Santa takes a break from his very busy schedule of delivering presents to all the good boys and girls of the world. He presents each child with a small gift and personally wishes them a "Merry Christmas!" This year each child received pajamas. It was perfect!!

Aiden absolutely loved seeing Santa. We missed Santa at the mall this year and he told Santa the wrong present at his Challenger program so this was his chance to change what he wanted for Christmas. Taylor was scared to death. I had to sit on the couch next to Santa holding a crying Taylor just to get any picture, but she loved her pajamas as soon as he left. All of the other kids had a great time as well. Brody screamed with delight. It was the cutest thing ever.

Just before Santa was to get back to his busy night, he remembered he had one more present and asked Aiden and Taylor to open the present for their baby brother or sister. This was the first time telling most of the family that we were expecting. It was a lot of fun to have the entire family together to make this announcement.

Quite a few people had already guessed that we were expecting as I have been so sick for the last three months. Oh well! They at least let me pretend that they did not know.

Christmas is one of my favorite holidays! I love having the families get together and just enjoy being around each other.