Lauren was very happy with her new clothes and Cinderella baby doll.
Then we were off to the bowling alley. The nearest bowling alley is now combined with a Hooters. There were Hooters waitresses serving food to the people at the lanes. I felt a little under-dressed. Technically over-dressed.
Carolyn bowled something wonderful and check out Eric's form!
Kaylin got in on the action too.
Then it was back to Eric's parents for our yummy traditional dinner of potato and taco soups. After that, we read the Christmas story from the Bible, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, and sang some Christmas carols accompanied by Gordon on the guitar and me on the violin. The good part about me playing the violin is that people don't have to hear me sing. Ha!
We got home past bedtime so the girls were really tired, but I made them open a present before bed.
Matching pajamas! I always thought it was so cute when families gave their kids matching pajamas on Christmas Eve. Now that I have two kids, I just had to do it.
Side note: Kaylin fought with Eric when he was helping her get ready for bed, apparently she didn't want to wear the new pajamas. Lately she'll only wear a long-sleeved pajama shirt and underwear. And we let her. It's not worth fighting over. But I insisted that she had to wear the penguin pajamas. A few minutes after she went to bed I went upstairs to get something and found that she changed out of her penguin pajamas. I went into her room to talk to her and asked if she would please put the new penguin pajamas on in the morning. She agreed. And she followed through on Christmas morning. We both got what we wanted.
Side note: Kaylin fought with Eric when he was helping her get ready for bed, apparently she didn't want to wear the new pajamas. Lately she'll only wear a long-sleeved pajama shirt and underwear. And we let her. It's not worth fighting over. But I insisted that she had to wear the penguin pajamas. A few minutes after she went to bed I went upstairs to get something and found that she changed out of her penguin pajamas. I went into her room to talk to her and asked if she would please put the new penguin pajamas on in the morning. She agreed. And she followed through on Christmas morning. We both got what we wanted.
2 comments:
that's hilarious that she changed out of her jammies, she cracks me up. I hope you got some good pictures christmas morning so it was all worth it.
I like their jammies :) That was Evelyn's first nightgown -- she felt like such a big girl!
I love the Xmas tradition stuff -- we did the bible story and "night before xmas" book, too :)
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