Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Eve is always a day for making fun and yummy treats at our house. For the first time I tried my hand at making some home made candy canes. They turned out really well. And yes, I know they only cost a few cents each at the store, but it's way cooler to give away "handmade" candy canes.

I also like to make home made Almond Roca. I call them Roca Rocks. Here the kids are dipping some pretzels in chocolate as they prepare goodies for Santa:

Then we carried on the McGiffin (my side of the family) family tradition of acting out the Scriptural account of the birth of Jesus. Tom read the scriptures while I helped the kids act it out.

Here's Kaitlyn the angel standing in the "clouds". (It's a big white down comforter)

Then, Christmas morning Alan and Sarah wait patiently in the Hallway for the time when they can come out and see the gifts.

And here is the Family Room after Santa has visited, and before we all came in to open presents. Santa left a little 2-wheeler bike for Kaitlyn and a full-size basketball hoop for Sarah. Alan got some nice starwars stuff, William got some cute baby toys, and we all got a Nintendo Wii and a Wii Fit. I swore I'd never have a game system in our house, but Santa knew I wanted to be able to do the aerobics andyoga with the wii. I'll tell you how that goes as I use it.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Tree...

As I've said in previous posts, we have two Christmas trees in our house. One is in the family room for the kids to decorate, and one is in the living room that I call my "pretty tree". I decided to put some "snow" on the tree this year in honor of all the snow my family is getting up north. These pictures don't do the tree any justice. It actually does look alot like snow is on it, even if it is just quilt batting :)

Alan's Gift wrap

These were the first gifts under the tree at our house. Alan used everything from an empty plastic spoon container to one of his Dad's old gun boxes. He even put some printer paper around one present and wrapped it with a belt of his. I guess I should've told him where the wrapping paper was. He didn't buy any of these gifts. These are his toys that he is giving to his family and friends. So even though it just looks like there's junk under the tree, we're keeping them there.