Christmas Eve 2008

On Christmas Eve, I continued my yearly tradition of trudging to the Brea Mall early in the morning to purchase a six-pack of Cinnabons to eat on Christmas morning. I love Cinnabons, but almost never eat them, because I imagine that just one of those suckers contains at least a thousand calories. But on Christmas, it's a Cinnabon free-for-all. After returning home from the mall, we got ready for the Christmas Eve service at Eastside. I curled the girls' hair and they put on their Christmas dresses. They looked adorable and loved being all dressed up.


After the church service, we went to Carey's grandma's house in Buena Park for our yearly Christmas Eve celebration. There was a lot of delicious food and more presents than you could imagine! Santa Claus (AKA Grandpa Mark) made a quick visit to the house before taking off to deliver presents. The girls, Carey, and I received so many great gifts and had a lot of fun!






After we came home, we got on the internet and went to the Santa tracker website (www.noradsanta.org) What a totally cool site! If I was a kid, that's all the proof I would need to make me believe! Upon seeing where Santa had been on the world map, the girls were so excited! They quickly donned their pajamas, got the milk and cookies ready for the jolly dude, and went outside to throw carrots on the roof for the reindeer. Then we read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and the girls were tucked in, screaming with excitement. It took them a long time to get to sleep, but once they were out cold, Carey and I went to work, doing our annual late Christmas Eve duties.