Christmas Eve

After all of the preparing and the anticipation, Christmas is finally here!  Our morning started off with a magical snowfall in which Katie exclaimed, "Mommy why is the snow so sparkly?"  We stayed inside for a bit and made colorful garland for the tree.  Then we headed outside for some sledding and snow fun.  After coming inside and warming up with some hot chocolate, we had lunch and got ready for church.

Katie drinking hot chocolate

Allie playing with her hot chocolate

Our church presented one of the best Christmas Eve services ever, complete with a puppet show and Christmas play.  Our minister explained that we can have the spiritual and the secular Christmas's together and that Jesus would want us to celebrate his birth and show love and joy by sharing gifts and doing kind things for others.

When we came home we sang "Happy Birthday" to baby Jesus, ate homemade ice cream, used my Grandma's special crystal glassware, played games, and left cookies, milk and carrots for Santa and his reindeer before heading up to bed.  Katie and Allie can't wait for Christmas morning!

PS - Allie let me pull her hair back in a ponytail today and I was just amazed at how much Allie looked like Katie today!

My special little twinsters!