Here is Weston on the phone with Grandma B while helping bake Santa's cookies.
Everyone was in a pretty good mood. This is early in the day though. We borrowed the nice camera from Ian's work for the holidays. Here are pictures of the rugrats of the house.
Late in the afternoon while the boys were asleep I got out my china to set our Christmas Eve dinner table. I hadn't used the china in a couple years I think. I forgot how beautiful it is and how much I love it. 
So, Weston had been sick the night of Ian's company Christmas party, but then he bounced back and seemed fine. Randomly though on Tuesday night he woke up at about 10:45pm and threw up. A lot. After we got him and his bed cleaned up he was fine and went back to sleep. Anyhoo, he has learned that saying his tummy hurts and that he is going to throw up will get him out of things he doesn't want to do, such as eating dinner, cleaning up toys, etc. When I told him it was time for dinner on Christmas Eve he pulled the sickie card, so he layed on the couch for about 5 minutes then got up and wanted to color. He ended up screaming in his room for 15 minutes while the rest of us enjoyed our chicken scampi. Finally Ian went in and talked to him. After the talk he came out and told me that the table looked pretty and sat down and ate a little bit. :) It was less than the ideal Christmas Eve dinner I had imagined, but I guess that's life with an almost 3 year old. Here are the happy members of the family at dinner.
After we ate dinner we sat down in the living room and read the first Christmas story from the Bible. Weston followed along with his book from Auntie Joy "My First Story of the First Christmas." Then we sang Christmas hymns for awhile. Finally, Davin went to bed, Weston laid out Santa's cookies and milk and then we watched Frosty, read the Polar Express and tucked Weston in. 5 minutes later, as I'm putting the china away, Weston comes out of his room and asks "Is it morning yet?" I assured him not yet and told him to stay in his bed and go to sleep or Santa couldn't come. It was pretty cute.
Ian and I watched White Christmas while we wrapped stocking stuffers. Right before we went to bed we laid everything out. I was so nervous that Weston was going to wake up and come out while I was filling stockings or something, but he didn't.
Santa had plenty of time to fill stockings . . .
. . . and lay out presents. All the presents in blue snowman paper were from Santa.
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Sounds like a fun Christmas Eve. We spent ours with Eli at work and Aly and I sitting here bored because we'd been stuck inside for so long. But Christmas was good--the Bowles came over here since the Tahoe is a little safer on the roads than the Bug. I can't wait to see Christmas morning pictures.
(P.S. Would you send me your recipe for Chicken Scampi? That sounds really good right now.)
So fun! Sounds like you guys had a great Christmas Eve. Hop your Christmas day was just as fun.
Annette
I am glad it all turned out (even if you did have a little melt down from Weston in there. . . is it possible not to??) Ours was nice too. The boys were kind of tired (and so was I), but we pulled it off and I am grateful. Isn't it fun to eat on nice dishes. I love it! I am glad your Christmas Eve was nice and can't wait to see the Christmas day pictures :)
Looks like you had a great Christmas eve. It has to be fun having a little believer.
That's so cute--I love your little "fireplace". Sounds like you had a great Christmas Eve. It makes me excited for when we have kids.
Love the china.. Doesn't it make your meal so much nicer?
I loved all the pictures, but that last one was just beautiful!
Haha, sorry I started my Christmas post with the night before Christmas poem, too... but yours was so funny.
Did you get an SLR?? That pic of Weston looks exceptionally crystal clear.
And the fireplace is so cute, and also really good! You are such a good little homemaker, Shannon! Your house looks magical.=)
So cute!!! I love that you have such a smart toddler on your hands. ("I feel sick") You are a super fun mom and I still am very jealous of your adorable fireplace. It was fun chatting with you tonight.
Your Christmas Eve looked fun. I loved the chicken scampi tying us all together. Joy and Jim and I had it on Friday for lunch :-) Your table was beautiful with the china and crystal :-) I wonder what Ian said to Weston to change his attitude. . . that why it's good to have two parents!! I also loved your fireplace. So cute! We totally missed you this weekend. But the web camera was like you were just there in the room. I do love that thing. Have fun with Mel and Brad tomorrow. Good luck with your shopping!!
Sounds like a wonderful, low-stress Christmas!! Don't you just love playing Santa? Christmas was way more fun for me this year.
Was Weston wearing a superman cape? That was too funny, and your fireplace was such a good idea, the kids were asking me how Santa would get into our house... I made something up, but that idea was priceless! Way to go Mom!
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