Twas the Night Before Christmas!

As is our second annual tradition, we headed to the Hayes' tonight to make Gingerbread houses and exchange gifts. Since Katy has been diagnosed with diabetes this year, we, obviously, could not do REAL gingerbread and icing and candy. So we improvised with foam houses.
They were HARD, but the kids loved them anyway.
Then they exchanged gifts and played. and played.

Later in the evening, Tristan came over.
and brought Katy a gift. After we left the house, Kylee said, Promise not to tell Lisa or Mari (Tristan's mom)? I agreed. She said, Katy and Tristan are dating, which is a miracle because last time we were there, they hated each other. Ahh, the drama of 5th grade.

They were all mad when we had to come home early to get ready for Santa. The kids wrote him notes
(Can you tell we didn't exactly have a great day?) and put out his cookies and milk....and coke, because Kylee said he needed some caffeine! and Blaine decided he needed to taste the milk because Santa only likes good milk It passed the test!

Then we did our annual Christmas Eve gift opening. The kids give the gifts they have bought for each other and Joey and me.



They MADE me t-shirts! They are the cutest. Notice the boxes they also colored to wrap them in.
We're not even to Christmas Day and are already so blessed.

And to all a goodnight!