Christmas Eve

Over the past few years Brett and I have started some Christmas traditions that we hope to continue through the years as well as add new traditions with our growing family! Christmas Eve is a day that we have together as a family at our house. So every year we have gone to the children's Christmas service and Brett's parents join us. Then they come back to our house for dinner.



After Brett's parents leave for the night we then let Ayden open one gift. Every year we buy him a book about the first christmas. This year we bought Ayden a book called The Christmas Prayer. I really liked it because the little girl goes through and thanks God for the gifts of the first christmas and the gifts are the people involved in the Christmas Story. I think it is great because it helps children understand who and why each person is important in the story. It also has wonderful pictures and is a board book.




We then read the christmas story out of the bible and also Ayden's new book. This year we decided to open all of our presents before bed as well. I was really excited for Ayden to open his choo-choo train because he had been pushing around the wrapped choo choo all week! I was curious if he would still play with it as much once he knew what was in it!