Christmas Eve and Morning

I grew up with tamales for Christmas and Jacob has fond memories of the Lebanese food that the Munyers always had. Well... I don't know how to make tamales and Kenai cuisine does not offer us any Lebanese food, so last year, we decided to preserve the food portion of each of our cultures in our own simplified way. We like to call it TACOS AND TABBOULEH! We did it again this year and it was yuuuummmmmyyyy!

After dinner, we did our Luke 2 reading and re-enactment, and then the kids got to open one present. Unfortunately, they misunderstood and thought that they'd get to open ANY one present... we stuck to our guns and made them open only their pajamas. This wasn't as exciting as the light sabers they knew they were getting (Jacob wrote "To: Jedi Knight in Training" on their gift labels and they figured it out!). There was a tiny bit of disappointment that mami didn't get the sewing done (or even started, for that matter) and the pajamas were purchased and not totally matching each other. But we all survived. We put the cookies and carrot sticks out for Santa, wrote him a brief note and went to bed.

Ammon was up twice during the night. Abraham, on the other hand, walked right past the tree and had no clue what was going on for several minutes. We woke Ziya up and let all the fun begin.

I made a collage, but I also put the exact same pictures in a slide show so that grandmas can snag a few if they want to.