Christmas Eve festivities

This morning began with Alexis finding a note in her last advent calendar stocking to build a gingerbread house. Let the fun begin, she helped with all the candy decorations. She did a fabulous job until we were drawing near the end. I knew the project was drawing to a close when she started to re-arrange the candies and figured out they were in fact edible. Here's a picture of our "ginger-house".
This little reindeer was working hard on her "puter" and I missed her wearing her potato head glasses but usually the scene is very serious glasses and all.
We had a nice Italian dinner and then is was time to get ready for Christmas eve church service. All dressed up for church, so we tried to take a few photos in front of the Christmas tree.
She was so excited to see "baby Jesus" and of course, it wouldn't be real if we didn't "touch him". We were so nervous she was going to pick him up.
After church we opened a few gifts,read a new Christmas book,and put out cookies and milk for Santa.The stockings were hung by the T.V. with care . . .in hopes that St. Nick soon would be there . . .The elves did a fabulous job building Alexis a new train set and wrapping up a few other surprises.Can't wait to see all the smiles on Christmas morning and make many more 2009 Christmas memories! What fun it is to be a kid on Christmas morning!