Wow! Christmas Eve has already come and flown by in what feels like a blink of the eye! As the kids get older it just becomes more relaxed and peaceful! No hurrying to get the kids to bed so we can start assembling toys and stuff, just nice and relaxing! We decided we wanted to spend our last Christmas on Okinawa right here! Ed will more than likely be gone next Christmas so we just wanted to enjoy this last one together without all the craziness of traveling half way around the world! Ed built a fire in the backyard and the kids just had fun playing with the neighborhood. Jorden was skateboarding with his friends, Vicki, chit chatting with hers and Ty and Ry were playing Sequence out back in between gun battles with thier friends. We called everyone together around 9 for our traditional reading of Twas The Night Before Christmas, which we read outside by the fire, actually, Ty and Ry read most of it, than we moved into the house to read the real Christmas story straight from the Bible. I always love this last night of Christmas, together, reading the real story with the glow of the lights from the tree. The kids always get to open one present on Christmas Eve. Later, Ty and Ry made sure Santa's plate of cookies had a huge variety of everything i had been baking this last week and than we went outside to take down our Christmas flag and put up our "Santa Stop Here" flag. Ty and Ry dashed up the stairs to bed, with thier new dragons and were sould asleep within seconds of thier heads hitting thier pillows. It was late! We got everything set up and put under the tree, stockings filled and were in bed sometime after midnight! This was the first year Ty and Ryan didn't mention leaving snacks for the reindeer....maybe we have moved to a new level of Christmas!
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