Christmas Eve

We had a fun Christmas Eve this year.
We started the evening at my brother's house.

He and his wife made us a yummy turkey dinner and then the cousins exchanged presents.

We think Ains looks like strawberry shortcake here
in her adorable outfit from Baby Wes :)

She also got some great ponies from Gavin. Totally Spoiled Happy Girl.

Hanging with my momsies!

The Tuttle's

After the kids had some new toys to play with we started
the White Elephant exchange we decided to do this year
instead of buying for names pulled out of a hat.
We played bingo to decide who got to pick a present.

Tom won boxing gloves and got Ainsley
to take out her Uncle Matt. She's buff.

There was a Santa outfit floating around
that all the kids had part of on at some point in the night,
tho I think Ainsley liked it the best of the kids
because she eventually got it all on and wouldn't take it off.

Ainsley was so excited for Santa, she couldn't stop talking/singing about it. :)

Then we headed back to my moms and set up the tree and hung up the stockings. One of my favorite old family traditions is hanging our stockings. We've always done this, and if I remember correctly it's an old swiss tradition. We hang the stockings on a pole and that hangs between chairs. I love that it's actually hanging when it's full, and there's usually a present underneath it as well.
I hope we always do it this way.
(Here's the stockings and mom finishing up some presents.)