New PJ's!

One of our traditions is to open one gift on Christmas Eve.  The kids cracked me up tonight wondering what it was when it's always the same thing, New Pajamas! They were all so excited though which was definitely a good thing!  We laid out cookies and milk for Santa, and another plate of cookies for the elves that come and prep for Santa. I thank the new movie Prep and Landing for that one, but hey, what's one more plate of cookies? ;)  We read The Night Before Christmas and then I gave each of the kids a handful of oats to go sprinkle on the yard to draw Santa's reindeer to the house. They had a blast with that, although Riley told me that it needed to have glitter in it so that they can see it, I told her that that probably won't taste very good and that the smell of the oats will do it's job to get the reindeer to our house.  They're all tucked in now and should be sleeping here shortly and I'm off to bed myself.  Merry Christmas!

Gearing up for Christmas!

Peyton's got the kids in the bath and I'm downstairs finalizing Christmas Eve preparations.  The kids will be down shortly to open their one gift, pajamas.  They'll put out milk and cookies for Santa, we'll go out and spread the Reindeer Food and then curl up together and read the Christmas Story and The Night Before Christmas.  Tomorrow I'll upload pictures of everything.  Merry Christmas Eve!

Riley's Gingerbread girl

Riley brought home a naked gingerbread person that she had to decorate and of course she wanted it covered in pink and purple. I think it turned out really cute!

New Job!

Not exactly, but I start teaching at my LSS (local scrapbook store) on Sunday, December 6th. I'm so excited! Ivy over at Scrappin' Happily Ever After did a nice write-up of me and my class. Click here to check it out.