Christmas Eve (cont)...

We also got ready for Santa by putting out reindeer food (oatmeal and glitter)...it looks really neat when you throw it on snow if you have some, but unfortunately our snow came 3 days too late.



We also set out the milk and cookies for Santa...


and set out our stockings...

and read The Night Before Christmas and the Nativity Story...we also acted this out earlier that night but I forgot to take pictures, but I did tape it and it was pretty funny.

The kids, of course, were a bit excited and had a hard time falling asleep. They would yell down to us that Santa couldn't come until we went to sleep, we said "we can't go to sleep until you do"...to which they replied, "We are asleep, we promise!" Overall they were really good and went to sleep pretty quickly.