christmas eve night

i also started another tradition this year...gifts for the kids to open right before bed on christmas eve.  any guesses of what they were???? yep, new christmas pjs - and matching ones for the boys (i was pretty excited about that find).  i know i'm not too original on this but still i was pretty happy about it anyway.  here they are opening them...

we came home from christmas eve dinner, opened these, and they put them on right away (they were washed and ready to wear) so that we could read 'twas the night before christmas by the light of the christmas tree.

ella wasn't feeling quite up to par and ended up with strep throat.  she was a real trooper though, and no one else got it!  thank you, lord!

and since we hadn't put the star on our tree yet, john john got to put it on just before we tucked them all in for the night...