Each year we celebrate Christmas with my family on Christmas Eve. Well, we had heard it was going to be freezing rain on Christmas Eve night and we thought we may not make it back to our house for Christmas morning, so that morning we let our kids open their gifts. We asked them if that would be alright and we had no objections, so the wrapping paper started flying off! 
They were all super excited about everything they got. I should add in there, that each year we have a couple traditions that we started with our kids. Each year, Christmas Eve morning, the kids open one gift. That gift is a Hallmark ornament that was picked out for each one of them and then they get to hang it up on the tree. Christmas Eve night, they each open a package that contains pajamas that they'll wear that night while waiting for Santa Claus.
Ethans' reaction when he opened his last gift(I didn't plan it that way, I couldn't remember what was in each wrapped gift) was priceless. I wish we had the video camera going at that point. The one thing he really wanted was, you guessed it, Lego Star Wars! He started uncontrollably laughing in extreme excitement as his eyes set upon the Star Wars Spiderdroid lego set! That will be a moment I know I will never forget. There's nothing like the smiles and laughter of a child. Especially in a moment you know they have been waiting for for a long time!
Maddie loves dolls! She is totally all girl! Those snap on dolls I think are the best thing we have ever gotton the girls. They will sit and play a long time with them interchanging their outfits! They already had the baby ones, so they were excited to see the bigger ones.
Well, we made it home the night of Christmas Eve. We didn't get rain at all like they had said, but we didi get some more snow. So the next morning the kids woke up to find that Santa had been to their house and had left them each a gift.
I had forgotton my camera when we went to my parents house, so we stopped and bought a disposable camera. I will have to add pictures of that later when I develop them.
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I have been thinking of traditions to start with Sage. We did the ornament with her picture and year on it that I think we are going to try and do each year, and the pajama thing. You are going to have to teach me about snap dolls and all the other in girl toys because I have no idea. I still remember some of your shower gifts and thinking, what are these? And now they are the things I can't live without. Scented diaper bags, link a doos,
OOOh, I didn't have scented diaper bags!! There's tons of stuff now that would have been cool for our babes! They always came out with them after we had already bought the older version!! Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the kids will appreciate the ornaments when their older and have their own trees. I thought it was a cool idea though!
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