Christmas Eve

We will be busy the next few days with a lot of extended family celebrating, so we made Christmas Eve Day just our family celebration.  We had a great day today.  We went out for breakfast, checked out a really cool train set up, saw Santa, opened presents wearing matching p.j.'s (well the kids anyways), saw Santa again and then made a gingerbread house.  Here are a few pictures from our fun day.

Caroline was very excited to have apple juice with her breakfast.

Love this girl!

There couldn't be a bigger Daddy's girl in the world (except for maybe me)

Mommy and Jack

Looking down on the amazing train set from the 2nd floor.

Our two cuties in their matching pajamas

We wanted a picture of the pants too, but that would have been a lot easier if Jack could stand by himself :)

Apparently my running from hitting the timer on the camera distracted him quite a bit from being able to look at the camera.

Caroline helping Jack open his presents.

He looks at his big sister in awe like this quite often.  I hope he keeps looking up to her like this as he grows up.

Caroline picked out a sand castle ornament just for me!

She loves anything princess!

Scott got a UofM Snuggie.  He was pretty excited!

She had to test all of the candy before we could put it on the gingerbread house.

Happy Boy!

Caroline got a recorder from Santa.  Thanks a lot Santa :)

Our gingerbread family

She was very proud of her house...and can't fathom why we didn't start eating it the second we were done decorating it.  It's going to kill her to see it sitting on our table.

Well, that was our Christmas Eve.  We had a great day together and can't wait to spend the next few days with dear family and friends.  Merry Christmas!