Christmas Eve Morning

Our First Christmas gathering of the season was spent at Auntie Em's house. We arrived mid morning Christmas Eve day. All the cousins were ready to open all the presents that were under the tree, but had enough distraction to wait just a bit. Aren't they all adorable? Oliver wanted to hold his cousin Carl, which meant Lucius wanted to "hold" Casen. Silly boy.

We opened gifts from the cousins and from Mormor & Morfar. Our little misters have been waiting to open gifts FOREVER and were super excited with all their new things.

After present opening we sat down to get a family photo. Not everyone was happy about it, but my father managed to get a really nice one and a funny one:

We had lunch and then all the littles went down for a long winter nap (well most of the 5 littles napped). When they awoke, they found a willing reader to read a bunch of books.

Of course, mid afternoon it was time for our traditional sledding trip. Thankfully Auntie Em and Uncle Jon have a good sledding hill right on their property. Oliver was REALLY getting brave and loving going fast. Lucius was happy to go down as long as someone went with.

It was a super fun morning/ afternoon. AND then it was time to celebrate Christmas Eve Night with Great Aunts and Marmee's cousins...

(to be continued.)