Christmas Eve

We have had a wonderful Christmas! We have been at the farm for several days, enjoying time with cousins and Aunts and Uncles and Grandma and Grandpa. The first order of business once arrived was to check out Grandpa's progress on his train layout. He has been working hard on it and it looks so good! He re-plastered and painted, and set up the little town with animals and people. It's quite the layout!

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There has also been some hot-tubbing.

Playing games, playing pool, working puzzles, and just enjoying each other.

On Christmas Eve we made Jesus a birthday cake.

(I'm checking for shells after Bug cracked the eggs)

Love this girl!

Cousin E came over to help make the cake and they were being so sweet to each other. They hugged and then started taking turns stirring.

So cute.

Both of our girls like men better than women...at least as babies. I think it's b/c women are more touchy with babies and Bug especially has always had a big "bubble". Whatever the case, Boo loves her Uncle Wade!

Boo, Bug, and Waylon

The kiddos listening to Grandpa read the Christmas story.

Time for presents! Instead of stockings we do baskets b/c we discovered long ago that we couldn't fit all our stocking stuffers into stockings!

We take turns going around and opening presents so we can all see what everyone got.

My girls.

Grandma had one more surprise for the kiddos before bed...matching jammies that she made herself! They are so cute! The kids were excited!

A picture of all five! We may have a few frowns but at least they are all there and not screaming. It's surprisingly hard to get a picture of five mobile kids at the same time!

I'll post pictures of Christmas day soon!