Christmas Eve

Boys all dressed & dapper before Christmas Eve service

After the service with our sweet boys.

The boys opening one gift on Christmas Eve-- their Christmas pj's. 

Setting out cookies for Santa.

"Feeding" the reindeer.  :)

We had a fun Christmas Eve with just the 4 of us this year.  We all got dressed up that evening & went to Christmas Eve candlelight service at church.  It was our first time to ever do this as a family.  Such a neat time.  The boys went to the children's nursery and Rodney & I got to worship with Christmas songs and listen to our pastor speak.  I was so overwhelmed and got really emotional singing O Holy Night in the service.  That is my absolute favorite Christmas song and I just felt overcome with emotion thinking of Christ's birth & what He did for us on the cross so we wouldn't have to suffer.  His love for us is amazing and incredible.  I am constantly in AWE of our precious Savior and how he became man, walked on the earth with His people, and then died on a cross for our sins. 

This is the TRUE reason for our celebration of Christmas & I just want instill all of these precious gifts in our boys.  We have talked a lot this month about this being Jesus' birthday and this is the REAL reason we celebrate Christmas.

We had a fun night of worshipping the Lord and eating as a family afterwards.  It was so sweet to do this as a family of 4 for the first time.  When we got home, the boys got to open one gift (a new tradition we started this year) and it was their Christmas pajamas.  Reid was thrilled to open a present & even more excited that he had cows all over his new pj's! He set out cookies for Santa & then we let each of them spread out some "reindeer food" on the front lawn.  It was a great way to start off our Christmas celebration!  

Too much to post about Christmas day... stay tuned for more fun pics!