We were excited again this year to have my mom and dad, (Nana and Papa Ostermiller), and my sister Jenny come and stay with us on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. As usual, they came with a car full to the roof with presents and the kids ran out to help them haul everything in and put it all under the tree. They also brought lots of Christmas goodies to add to those that we already had so there was not a lack of sweets here for sure! We had a little bit of an unusual Christmas Eve dinner this year. We were a little tired of Ham, so I just cooked a bunch of different stuff and we ate on it saturday and sunday. I cooked a turkey breast, chili, pepperoni rolls, homemade meatballs, hashbrown casserole, pigs in a blanket, sugar cookies, toffee bark, and baybe a few other things and my mom made onion dip and shrimp dip and lots of treats and Jenny made homemade cinnamon rolls. We had plenty to fill our tummys! We have a little board book that is a simple Nativity story that we have read on Christmas Eve for several years now and have had the kids dress up and act out the parts of Mary and Joseph. I usually read the little story and have the kids just dress up. Brayden has struggled with his reading over the past few years and has become such a good little reader so I thought it would be a fun surprise for everyone if I asked him if he would like to read the story this year. He was a little nervous when I asked him but I assured him that he could do it and that I would be right there if he needed help. Molly dressed up as Mary and picked out a baby doll to be Jesus and Carter was Joseph. Brayden read that story so perfectly. I was so proud of him. He was so confident and read so clearly. And that was such a big deal for him. He is so smart. We let the kids open a few presents on Christmas Eve since we had to be at church at 10am on sunday. Robbie picked out a special gift for each kid that was just from him and the kids thought that was really neat. Carter got the UK jersey he has been wanting. Brayden got a Corvette model. And Molly got a Discovery playhouse (she got one last year, too). Molly also opened a puppet theater so Nana and Papa played that with her for a while. I believe that Papa got kicked out of that party, though. It was fun for the kids to be able to open a few things to help the anticipation a little! Molly was SO excited about Santa. She kept asking Papa to go outside with her to see if they could see Santa "going around in circles above our house waiting for the lights to turn off". She sprinkled her glittery reindeer food outside earlier in the evening and was just giddy with anticipation! She told us right before bed "when I am in bed, if I hear Santa, I am just going to keep my eyes closed and pretend that I am asleep because I don't want him to leave!" My sweet little believer!!!
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