Christmas Eve

Since we were going to have a busy day  we made cookies pretty early on. I just got a quick little mix so it wouldn't take to long. Mathias loved to pour the mix in and add the egg and stir it himself. Azlyn just wanted to eat the chocolate chips. We set everything out just before we went to bed.  Notice how Azlyn is in different jammies than the ones she got tonight. Story about that a bit further down.

It has become tradition to go to Scott and Mel's house (Dev's brother and sis-in-law) with all of our families on our side as well as Mel's family and have fondue and play games and just hang out. Mel and her family does a themed tree every year and every year it is different. Mel had a Disney tree set up upstairs but had the doors shut so that Azlyn would not want to take it apart. It was amazing. Hopefully if you click the picture bigger you can see all the details better. My favorite part was at the very top at the end of the red ribbon they had tinker belle on the end of it like she was wrapping it around the tree. Azlyn found this little nativity scene and played with it for a long time. She also liked to pretend and play the drums with Audrey.

I was so excited for Azlyn to try the chocolate fountain. She is my choco-holic so I figured she would love it. She didn't. I was so surprised. She just wanted to eat all the colored mini marshmallows.  She ate a ton of them!

 The Browers taught us how to play    . It was pretty fun. I didn't play much because Azlyn wanted in on the fun and so I had to try and keep her entertained.

Mathias and Audrey kept our nephew Mitchell busy. Mitchell is amazing with kids and has just as much energy as they do. They just loved playing with him.

Then just before it was time to leave we all gathered in the dining room and opened up our Christmas Eve presents, which of course were jammies. It was kinda fun opening them with all of the other neices and nephews. We sure missed the DeGooyers though. We then attempted a group shot of all the kids wearing there jammies. Azlyn of course was just done and tired by this point. It had been a long busy day and was way past her bed time. Just as Devin was gathering all of our stuff to go, I had Azlyn in my arms when she all of the sudden threw up, out of no where and with absolutely no warning. She had not been acting sick at all. The kids have had a runny nose but that was it. So we took off her jacket and cleaned everything up and were off. She threw up a little bit on the way home as well. I was hoping it was just because she ate a ton of marshmallows. Poor girl She has yet to wake up on Christmas morning wearing the jammies that she got on Christmas Eve. On the way home, when Azlyn threw up again in her car seat, Mathias was trying his best to get the last bit of "good" in before Christmas morning to maximize his presents from Santa so he offered to help clean up Azlyn's mess. It was really sweet of him, even if it was for selfish reasons. All in all, we had a super fun filled day as usual filled with spending time with a lot of family.