Christmas Eve

So some of my posts might be out of date order- but at least they will be up! On Christmas Eve we decided to just spend time completely as a family. Mike was on leave from the 15th on- but we had hardly seen him at all as he was working on submitting a packet for officer commissioning. We were thrilled to have him home for the holidays! We decided to go downtown to see the city lights after the kids naps. Unfortunately right when we pulled in to see them, it started to rain. So we waited it out for a while and it stopped shortly after. That's one thing that is nice about the rain here- it doesn't usually last very long! We walked around the different HUGE statues they had of Santa, Elves, Trains, etc, and then went inside to see the Festival of Trees, Gingerbread houses, and wreaths. It was lots of fun! When we got home we ate lots of yummy finger foods, and watched a Christmas movie. We made sure to set out a plate of cookies and some egg nog for Santa before Josh went to bed! It was a really fun afternoon! Don't be fooled by Joshua's innocent looking pose in the bottom picture. I think this was right before he grabbed onto one of the trucks while the tree was spinning around. Thank goodness nothing broke!