Christmas Eve

The babies have continued to do well sleeping at night.  The babies woke up around 3:00 so we gave both a bottle, changed them and put them back down.  Calvin and Brayden woke up a bit later and so we all headed downstairs for breakfast.

The kids got fussy after a little while (especially Calvin) so we got everyone ready and went out to a store.  We didn't know where we wanted to go, we just knew that we needed to get everyone out of the house.  We decided to go to the Yankee Candle store so they could look at Christmas trees and other decorations.  They did pretty well, but Calvin was still fussy at times.  We bought some different flavored fudge to bring home for Christmas day.

We got back home and gave the kids lunch and then put them to bed for a nap.  Erin's family came over and brought their presents for the boys.  They figured that the boys would be all presented out by the time they got here on Christmas day so they wanted them to open their gifts Christmas Eve.  The boys got some Big Wheels.  It may be a few more months before they are tall enough to reach the pedals, but I'm sure they will love them. 

I ordered pizza from Papa's John for dinner.  I like the fact that you can order pizza online which makes it easy.  Unfortunately I tried ordering online and it kept giving me an error saying that the store was closed.  I looked around online and saw that the store was actually open.  I tried ordering again online and it once again gave me an error.  So then I decided to call to place the order.  Erin's parents stopped to pick up the pizzas on their way here.

We had a really good time with everyone here.  The kids were all well behaved.  Everyone enjoyed playing with the kids.  Erin's aunt and uncle came down from NYC and are staying with Erin's parents so they came too.  They enjoy seeing the kids.  Everyone headed home and we got the babies in bed.  The boys stayed up for a while later.  We asked them if Santa was coming tonight and they cheered and said "YES".  I'm certain they don't really know what's going, but it's fun.

After they got in bed we started putting out the presents.  After getting the presents set out I started putting together their wooden train set and table.  That thing took a while to put together.  Fortunately my parents and brothers got to our house around 8:30.  They came up for a few days which is great.  My brothers helped me with the train set and other things that needed to be set up.  It probably saved me a few hours of set up time.  Eventually we finished and relaxed for a little bit before heading off to bed.  The Living Room looked like a Christmas explosion.  There were presents everywhere.