Merry Christmas Eve!

We had a fabulous Christmas. It kicked off with Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa's. We ate a lot of food (and cookies) and then opened presents:

Here is AJ with Uncle Dave (or Daveess as AJ says) and Cousin Roman:

A tradition: my mom gets us lotto tickets. This year I won $50!! I would have been just as excited if I won $5 because I have never won before!

After the good food, presents, and family time, we went home to put AJ to bed in anticipation of Santa. I remember fighting with my sister to get to bed (as you know, I'm 15 years older and I used help Santa with the presents), it was nice not having to fight with a child to go to sleep to wait for santa yet. I'm sure we have that to look forward to in the next few years!

Santa got AJ a kitchen and asked us to help him put it together. I don't know if I just ate too much (I've been trying to watch my weight this holiday season!), or if I caught a bug but I immediately started to feel sick. I helped John bring the two HUGE boxes up the stairs and wrapped some presents and then it happened: I really did get sick. I just went to bed hoping it would pass. John was up until 3am putting the kitchen together and finishing wrapping presents. I felt SO bad for him, especially since AJ had been getting up by 6am every morning. Here is a picture of my husband putting the kitchen together:

A very great Christmas Eve!