We spent our Christmas Eve cooking, making last-minute preparations, and eating dinner with our good friends, the Phillips. They have a little girl exactly Sarah's age, and we all had lots of fun together.
After dinner, we enjoyed some Christmas carols.
Elaina helped me out on the piano while Sarah took care of the percussion. The Little Drummer Boy is her favorite.
It was dark by now, and Sarah declared it was time to go see Christmas lights, so we went for our traditional evening walk.
We did a scavenger hunt with the nativity pieces as we talked about the Christmas story.
Sarah was excited to open the final box in the advent calendar and find a tiny nativity scene.
After Sarah went to bed, Kelson and I got to help Santa out a little bit. Kelson put together Sarah's easel while I played with arranged her princess castle. We had a little too much fun. Christmas is so much better with children in the house!
We had so much fun decorating and preparing our new home for Christmas. This room looked so happy on Christmas Eve!
We finished our Christmas preparations about 11:00 and walked outside to look at our Christmas lights for a moment. We looked up and saw the most amazing moon. This is apparently called a moon halo, and it is a rainbow caused by moonlight refracted through ice crystals in the atmosphere. It looked awesome! We both felt like it was a special Christmas treat, like seeing the Christmas star.
All ready for Christmas!
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