Christmas Eve

 What a wonderful, magical night.  My whole life we have always had our big family celebration on Christmas Eve.  It is so wonderful to see so many of our family members in one place.  It doesn't feel like Christmas until we are getting ready for this party.  The kids had lots of fun playing on the piano. 

 Will has always shown an interest in music and it looks like Jack may follow suit. Luckily their music didn't seem to bother anyone.

 Next year we will host the big celebration.  In some ways I love hosting because it's so easy to just put the kids to bed and just continue the celebration downstairs, but I seriously lack Aunt Carm's decorating skills and don't have backgrounds this gorgeous.

 Poor Jack was having a really rough go of things for a bit there.  Nothing was making him happy.  Not even the super exciting news about a job he has in April!  His godfather, Tony and Allison are getting married and they asked Jack to be the ring bearer!  I was so honored that they want our little one to take part in their big day.  It melts my heart how seriously Tony takes being a godfather.  They had an adorable card made especially for the occasion and they gave Jack this super sweet teddy bear.  I was in complete shock and if I'm honest I even cried a bit :)

 Will brought home some super special reindeer food from school.  So we had to test it out!  The boys were very serious as they sprinkled the food all over the front yard. 

Max loved throwing it up in the air and watching it flutter down.

We decided that Jack was hot so before we knew it all he had on was his onsie and his pants.  So that's how he greeted Santa when he came to the door.  Too funny!

As soon as the big boys heard Santa's special bell they knew the big guy was there!  They both came running upstairs.  Santa was kind enough to let the boys ring his special bell too.  As with most  things these days Max turned it into a competition and had to show that eh could ring the bell the loudest. 

Even Jack got in on the bell ringing.  As long as the bell was in his hands Santa was a pretty okay guy in his eyes.  There was a present for each boys in Santa's big red sack.  They loved it!