Excerpts of the Craig Chronicles: Christmas Eve Eve

Jake and I wanted to spend Christmas eve at our own house for a change (which turns out we are very boring on Christmas eve)...We went up to my parents on Friday, Dec 23rd (Which also happens to be Brady's birthday). We started with Dinner, and then Cake for Brady and then B-day gifts. Lizzy would not leave the Christmas presents alone. So when Brady started getting gifts and we told her that they weren't for her (didn't help that she was really tired and wouldn't nap on the way up) she just burst into tears. So Brady, the nice guy, let Lizzy and Syd open his b-day presents. Then My dad read from the Scriptures about Christmas. After that we opened our exchange gifts.
Alyssa: I got some kitchen Aid accessories from Travis
Jake: got a Steam gift card from Brady/Sarah
Spencer: got a drone from Jake/Alyssa
Sarah: got
Brady: got
Shayla: got
Travis: got Pants, Beanie, Cologne from Spencer

Then the girls got to open their presents. They each got a pair of shoes. A Doll. Sydney a big girl doll. Elizabeth a baby doll. Lizzy got assorted baby food/bottle items. Sydney got a doll tent, a lantern, a pretend mini foreman grill and each girl got a matching girl/doll outfit.

William got a couple of outfits and a dexterity entertainment box thing. It has a different activity on each side, and then a move the "beads across different wires on top" activity. Lizzy actually really likes to play with this too.

I don't know what everyone else gave my parents, I'll just mention what we gave them.
My dad got a BYU ornament and flashlights, and For mostly my mom, but for both of them, We gave them a drawing of My brother Andrew with Jesus Christ.

After Presents we packed up and headed home. It was late, but because the kids fell asleep in the car we stayed up for a while after we got home.

It was a very lovely Christmas Eve Eve.

The kids were very bored on the actual Christmas Eve, because we didn't do much. In retrospect I really needed to plan better, but I kinda thought we would just naturally do Christmasy things. Nope. We played with the kids new baby dolls. Jake and I did our usual-spending time on the computer (I know, old habits :( ...). The that night we did the traditional open up Christmas Eve presents-which included pajamas, a book, and a movie.
The kids loved their pjs and the book, but they didn't care for the movie. "A Christmas Carol". It was a cartoon version, and I definitely think I need to get the original, because the cartoon one was different and weird.
Then of course....Christmas Day Came....

Sad because she couldn't open presents yet

Happy because she got to bonk Brady on the head

Our gift to Brady for both Christmas and his Bday was a Cabela Gift Card inside a Victoria Secret Gift Card Box (My Sis in Law Lydnsey got a Cabelas Gift Card label with Victoria Secret Gift Card inside (we flip flopped them) ).