My mom has started a tradition with the kids to give them Christmas Jammies, a book, and an ornament on Christmas Eve each year. This year she got the kids adorable jammies, as always! Paiges said, "I've been sweet all year." and Paxten's said, "All you want for Christmas is me!" Parker was excited that he got angry birds shirt and flannel pants that were long and fit him well. The book she got the family was a new book written by Thomas S. Monson called, "The Christmas Train." We enjoyed reading the book that evening about when our prophet was a little boy and the decision he made to make Christmas special for a little boy in his ward. It was a great story with beautiful illustrations. The ornaments the kids got this year were wonderful as well. Paige got a little girl building a gingerbread house, Paxten got a boy dressed as Batman, and Parker got a red Angru Birds ornament. The kids love having their own ornaments to decorate the tree each year and love to look at all the ornaments from previous years. It really is a fun tradtion.
Matt had to work on Christmas morning this year, so we got special permission from Santa to have out Christmas on Monday morning instead of Tuesday morning. So that made out Christmas Eve on Sunday night. The kids really had no idea that is was a different day and we so excited about the thought of Santa coming that they could hardly sleep. Who wouldn't have been excited that Santa was coming a day early?! Parker woke up about 6 times during the night and Paige woke up twice. At about 6:45 we decided that we shoule just get up and let them open their presents, we weren't going to be able to go back to sleep anyways.
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My mom has a similar tradition of giving our family a new Chrostmas book too. We got that same book!
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