advent: day 24

almost there! our advent activity for today was to read the christmas story to kiah before we celebrated christmas as a family! we all had some breakfast (cereal and applesauce for kiah, cinnamon rolls for us!) then sat down and listened to eric read from luke 2. once done it was time for stockings and presents!

kiah is obviously a bit young to really figure out gifts and how to open presents, even if he did like ripping the paper. i suspect by his birthday he may have a better idea :). i have been working on a present that was supposed to end up in kiah's stocking but i didn't get it done on time. oh well...once it is completed i'll share :).  we also opened our gifts from tom, penny & jen since we weren't spending christmas with them this year. here are the pics to show what fun we had!

kiah playing before we started

the tree and pile of presents!

opening stockings

ooh more paper to rip!

think he's excited about this gift?

you have no idea how excited i was about this :) thanks jen!

the giant mess after...

once the fun stuff was over it was naptime for kiah and time to pack for eric and i! we managed to get everything packed and house mostly cleaned up before leaving...pretty sure that was the first (and probably the last) time that's happened! aaaaand we're off to palm springs!