All Ready for Santa

We love taking time on Christmas Eve to prepare for Santa. The kids still get SO excited and that is so exciting for Dale and I. We prepared our cookies earlier in the day, opened our new jammies, and now it was time to get everything ready. Kaylee's first Christmas Dale started reading her the story of Jesus' birth as her bedtime story. It is so amazing to think of how that one task has evolved over time. That first year she fell asleep! The next year we had just added a newborn, then we went to both of us trying to wrangle 2 toddlers long enough for him to get the story read, to having to explain that this is the real reason for this special night and not just all about Santa, to sharing the time with Meagan and Macie when we are in Texas to this year seeing them get the bible out themselves and watching Braden take Daddy the bible and Kaylee taking Kelsee from Nana to go sit with them. It is definitely a moment we will not take for granted and now with our new blessing we have MANY more wonderful years of reading this special story!!

I absolutely LOVE this picture!! And I didn't even have to tell anyone to "move into the pic", "don't hit her", or "stop pouting and listen!"

Kelsee is all dressed in her First Christmas PJ's and ready for bed!!

Cookies for Santa - Check
Letter to Santa - Check
Hay for the Reindeer - Oops!! We forgot to have Nana bring some so Kaylee put in the letter to stop at her house and grab some!

We were all set for Santa to arrive and Uncle Chris told us how to look up where he was and since he was in Mexico we had to get to bed fast!! Amazingly both kids went to sleep fairly quickly!