Santa Came to See Us! :)

And he left gifts by the tree....

Some for Reese.....

Some for Anna.....

And some for Maggie.....

And Santa filled our stockings too....

Christmas Eve

Now that the hustle and bustle around here is over, I'm taking a little time to back track through our Christmas. Now that I've begun, I realize I am going a bit out of order, but who cares, right?

Our Christmas Eve was spent by hanging out at home during the day, and then attending the Christmas Eve Candlelight and Communion Service at First Baptist Church. We have been visiting here pretty much since we moved, and we will most likely be joining at the first of the year. I always love Christmas Eve services, but I was especially 'excited' about this one because this would be Reese's first time to participate in the Lord's Supper since her baptism back during the summer. She took her 'bread' and 'wine' like a big girl, and then immediately proceeded to eat! When Warren told her that she was supposed to wait, she fell apart. Bless her! She thought she had done something wrong; she was really torn up about it for most of the night. We kept telling her that no one, including God, was mad at her, and she finally calmed down. (She is the most melodramatic of our girls!)

Once we got home from church and after we ate supper, we began the tradition of making cookies for Santa! I decided to let the girls help in shifts, one because it kept me saner, and two because we have a wall oven in our rental house and there isn't enough room for multiple cookie sheets.

It was Reese's turn first....

Then Nanner.....

(She was showing me one of the 'casualties')

Then Maggie Wags.....

We also continued our tradition of letting the girls open one gift. And of course, they kinda suspected that what they were opening would be PJs. I just love doing this every year, but Warren said that they were too excited about opening, and that we should let them pick ONE that they wanted to open. So, I think we might have started a second, new Christmas Eve tradition, too! They were thrilled with what they picked out to open.

Reese got a spacer for her Miss Chamilia bracelet.

Maggie got some Bath and Body Works smell goods.

And Anna did, too!

A quick pic in their new Christmas PJs! I'm beginning to think that taking a "normal" picture of the three of them is out of the question!