Here is our christmas eve, we made a small charlie brown tree. One of my favorite memories of christmas was when we spent christmas eve in the old white house on the ranch. We didn't bring all the fancy ornaments or garland, but Mom and Grandma Bean helped us make ornaments out of christmas cards and we made our garland out of popcorn. I think I was only about 8 or 9 but it was so much fun, so we did that this year with the kids on christmas eve. Allie had so much fun making the snowflakes to glue the chirstmas cards to. And she helped make the chain garland to around the tree. Riley helped put a couple of the cards together but he did best hanging up the few little christmas light ornaments we used and then he cleaned and vacummed the floor from the mess of making snowflakes. The kids had a blast and I think even though the tree is really small and it isn't in christmas colors that it the best tree we have had in our home for christmas. It was so much fun and the kids really had a great time decorating it. We had a fun time using Grandma Walker's christmas Eye Spy book, Riley even found a few. The ones that Papa couldn't find must have been misprints. We talked about the christmas story and what christmas was really about, I think that went over Riley's head, but Allie
seems to understand it a little more now, we made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and had a couple of those with a nice hot cup of Hot Chocolate and then we opened up the family presents, all of which were great, I'm not sure about the ant farm, that one might get loaded up with ants and shipped back to grandma and grandpa for their itchy enjoyment!!!!!! It sure is amazing how presents pile up with 4 kids, it felt like christmas morning just doing the family presents.
Christmas morning was fun the kids tore through their santa gifts and made a huge mess, even piglet got in on the action. The girls big hit was their ride on toys, and for Riley it was his cowboy boots and his action rescue toys. Allie had a few favorites, she finally got a brown baby doll that is like her, she cries real tears, and burps when she is fed (yippee!!) She also got a remote control robot and a magna doodle for her computer. It was really sad the girls were up but we had to wake the older two I think that they maybe came out and peeked during the night so they were exhausted this morning.
