Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was spent relaxing and having fun. 

i told myself that i was not going to get stressed this year and guess what...i didn't. 

yay!

we started off the day by making our annual gingerbread house
apparently ella was pretty excited.

while the girls were busy making their house this little guy was supposed to be napping (don't pay any attention to the fact he was still in his jammies at noon!)
but apparently he was too excited to take a nap...i hear ya little guy-mommy was excited too!

then the girls helped me make these yummy treats

oops...those big huge sodas in the background just reminded me that the day actually started off with a sonic run...i think i may have a problem! :)

here we are before heading to church. 

even this picture of all the littles didn't stress me out...
ok...so maybe it did just a tiny tiny bit. :)

these two are so cute together...they truly melt my heart!

after church the girls discovered new jammies that santa had left.
thanks santa!

and here is the whole clan right before heading off to bed

of course i can't end this post without sharing the story of this...



my poor little abbie pulled at a stocking that was hung from a very heavy iron stocking hanger on the mantle and the very heavy iron stocking hanger landed right on her big toe.  the poor thing was in so much pain.  she called it her "bleedin toe"...

poor baby can't cut a break on christmas eve. 
two years ago she was sick on christmas eve and we didn't know until this happened during the church service

oh my sweet little abbie.