During the evening we decorated a gingerbread house, read the Nativity from the scriptures and just enjoyed some quiet family time together.
The boys kept watching out the window for Santa's elves. They wanted to catch them in the act of dropping off their jammies. Much to the boy's dismay they didn't catch any elves this year!
Right before bed, we sprinkled reindeer food in our front yard. Brr, it was cold!
And right before we climb into bed, the boys put out some homemade sugar cookies and milk for Santa.
Why the empty glass picture? Well, if you look close enough you will see a line made out of tape. The boys are getting smarter and smarter every year. They quietly put the tape on with out Ryan and I knowing. They wanted to see if Santa really drank the milk. You can see that Santa drank the whole glass of milk! Well, those boys are smarty pants and I guess knowing how much Santa drank really wasn't their point in putting the tape on the glass. However, I didn't know their real intentions until later on Christmas day. After breakfast the boys were eager to help load the dishwasher which really isn't a surprise since we usually all help load the dishwasher after our meals. What was unusual was I didn't have to keep reminding them to help. I didn't think anything of it, except what helpful boys they were being on such a special day. Well, as soon as the dishwasher beeped it was done, the boys ran to the dishwasher and pulled out the glass. They quickly pulled off the tape and low and behold they discovered a finger print and not just any finger print, but it was SANTA's fingerprint. They were very pleased with themselves, when they discovered the finger print since that is what they had wanted to do all along.
