Christmas Eve Activities

This year, since we new we were going to be moving units in Hilton Head on December 24th, we decided to hold off on decorating a tree until Christmas Eve. I've always enjoyed carving pumpkins with the girls on the afternoon of Halloween, and thought this might be a similarly fun activity for the family....and it was! We used some colored lights and a few balls, but for the most part the decorations were construction paper chains and popcorn/cranberry strings. Though it was born out of necessity this year, we had so much fun that it will be a tradition that we will keep into the future.








Lily got to open one Christmas present early!...she choose one that was from Uncle Jonathan.


Gran, being the cookie fabulista that she is, led the cookies for Santa Claus team. She found some little bear cookies and "edible" markers that allowed Lily to draw pictures on the cookies for Santa to eat. As you see below, Lily was also concerned about the reindeer and decided to leave out some broccoli and water for them...the peppermints were for Santa and the reindeer I think.




Polka-dot did his job (as usual) and told Santa exactly where to find the girl's Christmas tree. If you ask me, Santa probably didn't have any objections to dropping off their presents on a beautiful night in Hilton Head either....though I hear he did have to get a little creative to fill up the tires on Lily's new bike....