Christmas Eve preparation

Ben and Liam can hardly contain the excitement! We had several things to do tonight before bed time and there were strict instructions to get to sleep on time so Santa would come.

Grammy and Poppy joined us for Christmas Eve dinner and our first attempt at gingerbread houses. We started with pre-made houses and then added our icing and candy. Liam was pumped about the candy.

Some of it even got on the house.

Grammy put the icing on Ben's house while Ben put on the candy.

Good looking house - Ben and Grammy. Well done.

Liam thought it was finger licking good.

After the boys were bathed and in pjs, we made reindeer food for Rudolph and the gang. We started with chex and added powdered sugar,

and sprinkles. Nice combo, I think.

We put lids on the bowls and shook it up. There was lots of squealing.

Next the boys poured it on the lawn so the reindeer can find their way to our house and get a snack. And, hopefully bring Santa with them!

Then we went inside to get our milk and homemade cookies ready for Santa. The boys also got out some carrots (also for reindeer) and elf food for Santa to take back to the North Pole. There was the usual talk about how Santa is going to get down our (never used) chimney. We opened the doors on the (never used) fire place.

And, off to bed with smiling faces.