That night, after seeing the reindeer, we began our festivities! For the past several years we have opened our gifts on the 24th and then had our Happy Birthday Jesus party on the 25th. So, on the night of the 23rd we always (ever since the girls were bitty babies) opened one present and then go to look at lights!!! The gift is always a new pair of pajamas that they can wear in the car to go look at the lights. They love it!
Anli got a pair of green (her favorite color this year!) pair of polar bear pjs. That day their final gift from Aunt Leslie came in the mail!!! It was their beloved Littlest Pet Shop Online animals. Leslie worked so hard to get the zebra for Anli...it was even sold out on Amazon and Hasbro! So, she found it on Ebay and got it for her. What a wonderful aunt!!
Virginia got pink partridge in a pair tree jammies! Talk about cutie patootie!! She is also holding her sweet monkey from aunt Leslie!
Every year we have this same photo of the girls. Sometime soon I need to post all of them...they are just so cute and getting SO big! Love those girlies...
Then, comes their favorite part of the night...STARBUCKS! We head to Starbucks for yummy hot chocolate for the kids and Peppermint mochas for us. We made fresh cookies to eat with them...cause warm cookies beat store bought any day!
This year (thanks to Mary) we headed to the Lights of Life at Life College. It was only $5 per car and it was WONDERFUL! We had a great time and so enjoyed the amazing lights. We normally go to Lake Lanier with friends every year...but the price went up to $40 per car (so we all went to Stone Mountain instead!) so $5 was looking real good to us! We also knew that we would be going to a HUGE light display in NC with Jay's family called Tanglewood.
That night, after seeing the reindeer, we began our festivities! For the past several years we have opened our gifts on the 24th and then had our Happy Birthday Jesus party on the 25th. So, on the night of the 23rd we always (ever since the girls were bitty babies) opened one present and then go to look at lights!!! The gift is always a new pair of pajamas that they can wear in the car to go look at the lights. They love it!
Anli got a pair of green (her favorite color this year!) pair of polar bear pjs. That day their final gift from Aunt Leslie came in the mail!!! It was their beloved Littlest Pet Shop Online animals. Leslie worked so hard to get the zebra for Anli...it was even sold out on Amazon and Hasbro! So, she found it on Ebay and got it for her. What a wonderful aunt!!
Virginia got pink partridge in a pair tree jammies! Talk about cutie patootie!! She is also holding her sweet monkey from aunt Leslie!
Every year we have this same photo of the girls. Sometime soon I need to post all of them...they are just so cute and getting SO big! Love those girlies...
Then, comes their favorite part of the night...STARBUCKS! We head to Starbucks for yummy hot chocolate for the kids and Peppermint mochas for us. We made fresh cookies to eat with them...cause warm cookies beat store bought any day!
This year (thanks to Mary) we headed to the Lights of Life at Life College. It was only $5 per car and it was WONDERFUL! We had a great time and so enjoyed the amazing lights. We normally go to Lake Lanier with friends every year...but the price went up to $40 per car (so we all went to Stone Mountain instead!) so $5 was looking real good to us! We also knew that we would be going to a HUGE light display in NC with Jay's family called Tanglewood.
We wanted to get out but it wanted to get out but it was FREEZING!! The kids said "no way" and so we just stayed toasty warm in our car belting out Christmas carols and sipping drinks and munching cookies. What a night...
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