Christmas Eve

We started off the morning by making sugar cookies. Lots and lots of sugar cookies.....
Landon was especially helpful this year!

I must share a tip right now regarding sugar cookie making. It has changed my life.

So, when I make my dough, I divide it and roll it out between two pieces of parchment paper right away. Then I place on a cookie sheet and freeze for 15-20 minutes (or longer). I do this with all my dough, then pull one sheet out at a time and proceed with cutting out shapes, re-rolling and freezing as needed. It is SO much easier to cut them out and place on the baking sheet when the dough is frozen! Anyway....

After cookie decorating the kids had fun pummeling each other with a gift from one of Matt's co-workers. It was pretty hilarious!

Later in the day we headed to my parents house for Christmas Eve festivites. The food was delicious, as usual, and the house looked and felt very festive!

As promised, here is the video of the kids performance:
*this video is actually their second performance on Christmas Day for the entire Young family. In the Christmas Eve performance Landon was hidden in the back the whole time...

No Christmas Eve would be complete without a shepherd and his sheep.....

A wise man and his gift of gold......

and the whole Nativity scene!

When we got home the kids opened their Christmas jammies and put out milk & cookies for Santa. They wanted to stay up until midnight so they could see Santa, but when they heard that he might skip our house they rushed to bed!