Our own little Christmas

We decided to have our own little Christmas Eve on Christmas Eve Eve and do our Christmas morning on Christmas Eve. We live close to both of our families, and with trying to enjoy the holiday with everyone we have tried to incorporate our own little Christmas so we can still do all the fun stuff that we have always dreamed of doing with our kids. 

Our kids know that we have sent a letter to Santa telling him that we are at Grandma Cammy's house Christmas Eve and to leave the kids' gifts there. And that Mommy and Daddy will just fill their stockings so that he doesn't have to worry about it.

Christmas Eve Eve before church. They are seriously the cutest. And I just love that when I have them take picture together now, they put their arms around each other. 

The kids usually get so many gifts between two sets of grandparents and both of their birth parents that we keep our gift giving minimal for them. We buy them one present each from us and then one present for the both of them from us and then they buy one for each other. And we fill their stockings. And can I just say that I am in love with Amazon for buying Christmas gifts. It was such a life saver in reducing my stress about gift giving. 

Hubs and I woke up at 7am and neither of our kids were awake yet. We wanted them to come out and see the gifts under the lit tree while it was still dark, so hubs went and woke them up. 

Love seeing them get excited about it!

Oak's favorite thing in her stocking were the tinkerbell bandaids. 

You can't have too many action figures. This boy can't get enough of them. And he loved his star wars ones from Oak.

This girl loves baby dolls! She has quite the motherly instinct.

Our little cuties!

I almost forgot that Bryce rocked the gift giving this year. He made my dream come true with a brand new camera!!!! It is a Nikon D3200, and I LOVE IT!!  I have been asking for one since before Oak was born. I have needed one for awhile, because my other DSLR has just not been working very good. Probably because it is about eight years old. I am still trying to figure out my new camera, and I will have to buy at least one new lense since my old lenses won't work with my new camera unless I want to manual focus. Which I don't, too hard with trying to capture little ones. I was completely shocked that Hubs would buy me a new camera. He has been telling me it isn't a good idea and it is not priority when I already have a working camera (point and shoot).

I gave Hubs a guided fishing trip on the Umpqua. I think he is excited about it. I also gave him the gift of planned dates for the year. I have worked out with my neighbor to do a babysitting/date night exchange. So we will get at least one date night every month. I am so excited about this!