twas the night before christmas...

ok, so it was really 2 nights before christmas, but who's counting? chase had to work on christmas day this year, so santa visited our house on the 23rd. lucky for us, the little people are too little to know the difference!!

william has been asking when we could make s'mores in the fireplace again ever since it got cold outside. so, i decided that we could make that our christmas eve thing. we eat s'mores for dessert, and then santa gets some when he stops by a little later. i'm sure santa gets tired of cookies, and s'mores are a nice change up, right?

here's the eagle scout putting his skills to good use...

ready to dig into the finished product!


(no idea why william decided to be the ups man on this night....but, it probably had something to with the fact that the real ups man rang our doorbell and delivered something about 4 times a day during the month of december...we really should have hung up a stocking up for the poor guy!)

much tastier than a cookie!


reed didn't care too much about s'mores!


setting santa's snack by the fireplace for him...


(i promise this kid owns some pants, but most of the time they aren't on.)

we get to open one present on christmas eve, and both were thrilled with their probots. (for those of you non-nfl watchers, that's those robot/football player things at the bottom of the screen that jump and move when there's an nfl game on! yes, i live in a house of testosterone...somebody help me.)


reed preferred to eat his present rather than open it!

soon afterwards, everybody under age 4 went to bed. i'd like to say, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse....but, come on. is that possible?