Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve started like any other day. Gabriel went to daycare.  We brought Miss Mary's gift to her in the morning, that way to wouldn't forget it.  Mary loved it, and who wouldn't love a gift card for a massage.

Then I was wrapping presents and putting in the final touches for he boys first St. Louis Christmas.  Scott worked a half day and grabbed some more Christmas goodies.

We had our family Christmas Eve dinner that I quickly prepared as Scott picked up Gabriel. We had a wonderful meal of ham, mashed potato, and green beans.  Gabriel did well trying the ham and potatoes.  After dinner we headed to the basement to watch The Polar Express.  Gabriel loved that movie and it was nice to watch it as a family.  

Before bed time Gabriel wrote a note to Santa and helped Scott put out cookies. I'm pretty sure Scott and I were more excited about Christmas morning than Gabriel.  We couldn't wait for him to go to bed.  A few more Disney Christmas movies and it was time for bed.

Once Gabriel was successfully asleep, we devoured the cookies as we put together the gift from Santa.  This years gift, a red wagon, was pretty easy to put together. Scott had it completed in 30 minutes.

Bennett slept through is moving things around and hammering.  After watching Elf, we headed to bed.