Christmas Eve

Once again it's taking like a million years to upload pictures on our laptop -- even after reducing the file size drastically (you'll notice the pictures are quite pixelated) -- it's sooo annoying. Anyways... I'll have to figure something else out for the rest of the holiday pictures because the current method is taking way too long.

So here we are in Downey on Christmas Eve. Currently it's the way we are doing things -- spending Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in Downey and spending the rest of Christmas in Preston.

We had a nice dinner Christmas Eve, gathered around after and read a few Christmas stories, played some Bingo and of course read the nativity story. Check our Reese's Bingo card -- I'm pretty sure she won that round.

Reese had a set of nativity stickers that Grandma Z gave her. She was able to put each character on the paper when it came up in the story.

The finished product! Don't you remember the part in Luke 2 where the wise men float around upside down?

Naturally Reese was very excited for Santa to come so she could finally open presents in the morning. I don't think we got her to bed until like 10 or 11! When I put her to bed I kept having to remind her that she needs to go to sleep in order for Santa to come and leave her some presents.