Before dinner we attended Christmas Eve service at RPC, as we do every year, and Ava wanted to hold her own candle....with fire. Other then that, the service was beautiful and we are so blessed to call River Pointe our church home.
**coming soon: pictures from RPC's Christmas Eve candle lit service**
After dinner we took our annual Raimondo family picture (minus Pete because he was the photographer) then Colin and Ava opened their gifts from the Raimondo's.
Aunt Gina bought Colin a Texans pillow pet and he LOVES it! He yelled and immediately hugged it with love!
Uncle Andrew bought Colin a singing and dancing Santa hat. It sings "I want candy..." Ah, such a perfect gift for C!
both of the kids got new remote control cars, which became the main attraction of the night!
When we got back to our house the kids set out carrots for the reindeer and cookies and milk for Santa. Ava enjoyed "counting" (and eating) the carrots and feeding Oscar some reindeer food. Colin made a bag of special reindeer food at school to sprinkle in the backyard for Rudolph. It was raining so we just added it to the plate of carrots.
after the plate was finished, colin realized he had reindeer dust on his hand and asked if he could fly now lol then a little fell on oscar...OOPS
Colin asked if he could wake up when Santa got to the house and watch him put the presents out. We reminded him that even though we spend time with Santa at Colton's house, we still have to stay asleep while he is at our house delivering the gifts. :)
Christmas Eve 2010
Christmas Eve 2009
Christmas Eve 2008
Check back soon for our "Christmas day" post!