Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a great day. I spent most of the morning finishing up some presents I was making (note to self: don't put off christmas projects until Christmas Eve. Really don't do this).

I kept wanting to buy some ornaments for the girls to put on our tree (some sort of "first christmas" or something) when it occured to me that I could just make some instead. Then I figured as long as I was making some for my tree I could make some for the grandparents too and give it to them as a gift.

So I went to Michaels and bought some little wooden hearts and then came home and painted them. I scanned in the girls' footprints from the hospital and shrunk them down and then reprinted them. Then I mod-podged (yes, it's a verb) them onto the hearts with some cute paper and printed their names and stats for the back of the heart and stuck that on too. Then adam helped me drill some holes and I threaded a little ribbon and ta da! Our own little cute baby ornaments!

Then we finished wrapping all the presents for family members.

I got the girls all dressed up (isn't that the funnest part of having girls?). I've never had a reason to do this yet and we went the whole nine yards--tights, head bands, shoes that are too big.. I loved it!

(Lucy's on the left with the white jacket and Jenna's on the right with the orange jacket)

Christmas Eve was spent with the Hock side of the family so we went over to Adam's aunt & uncle's house for a yummy dinner. When we got there people took our babies and gave us goblets of sparkling cider instead--not really an equal trade, but cheers to the girls being so loved! (sometimes when everyone wants to hold them at once I apologize that we only had two at a time and not three or four).

The girls met their great-grandma Jeanne (above in the green) for the first time which was fun (next time I'll have to get a picture with both of them or maybe a four generation one). She is one of only two great-grandparents left (the other is my grandma brown) so it's kind of neat that they got to meet her while she's still alive. (lucy came home with a little lipstick on her face a la grandma jeanne :)

We ate the yummiest meal I've had all year (at least that's how felt--thank goodness Christie is such an awesome chef) and then opened presents.

Afterwards Adam's parents and siblings came back to our house for our own little gift exchange. Unfortunately the girls and I had to miss out since it was time for them to feed. But Adam took pictures and we heard a lot of laughter from the next room (I told him next time he should've stuck the baby monitor out there so I could've at least heard the conversation...)

All in all it was a wonderful day.

P.S. Thanks Michelle, for being our official family photographer since she's taken almost all of the pictures of the four of us to date.