Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we spent at our house with the 6 of us, Oma and our au pair Marina.  We hung out, ate a lot of food, decorated Christmas cookies (Denkel's bakery), opened presents and took a lot of pictures.  We took pictures wearing our nice clothes and then changed into our Christmas pajamas for more pictures.  We let the boys open 5 presents on Christmas Eve because Julia and Ethan were opening all of their presents.  It was fun showing Marina some of our holiday traditions.  It was such a special night having most of us together celebrating the holiday season.  We wish we could celebrate with everyone in the family, but at least the 6 of us and Oma could be together.  The boys decided to do some silly poses for our pictures.  We left out cookies and milk for Santa.  He left the boys a nice letter telling them they made the nice list.  There were definitely some moments where we didn't know if Santa was coming or not, but overall the boys made the nice list this year.  Our elf Sparkles checked on the boys each day and reported back to Santa.  Merry Christmas!