Oh what a wonderful Christmas! It is a Rose family tradition that on Christmas Eve we cook clam chowder, and it is so much more fun to have people over to share it with! So we invited Matt's home teaching family the Czachers, to come share it with us. So Dannette and her daughter Breanna came. It was so cute because Breanna walked in with a hat that Emma has and so Emma had to run up and put hers on.
Matt did a GREAT job at cooking the clam chowder. I think it was his best batch yet! Then he also cooked King Crab legs and we had bread sticks and a vege platter. It was wonderful. Then we read the Christmas story from Luke 2 together. After our guests left we let the kids stay up and watch The Christmas Story (not THE Christmas story of Christ, but the "You'll shoot your eye out" Christmas Story). I thought they would be excited to stay up but they kept saying "Shouldn't we go to bed so Santa can come????" They were so anxious :)
We were all watching the movie and SUDDENLY there was a knock at our door and guess who it was....SANTA! I think he really likes to warm up in Florida before making his rounds because each Christmas Eve he seems to stop in to check on us before his busy night. Emma was a little skeptical this year and thought it was our neighbor George. But it couldn't have been because Liz had just sent him off to the store. Hmmmm????
Then the kids were off to bed. BUT you can't say "not a creature was stirring" at our house. Poor Emma, just before going to bed, with all the anxiety and anticipation, she started to get nervous. She didn't like the thought of someone being in our house, not even Santa. She woke up every HOUR! She said "I just don't like to hear noises when I'm sleeping, like the clip clop of Santa's boots or the reindeer hooves!" She was soooooo anxious! Finally at 3:30 am Matt went into her room and he said she was shaking! He told her Santa had already come and the gifts were downstairs. I thought this would keep her up because she would want to go downstairs and see everything, but immediately she RELAXED! She did ask if Matt could see a bike down there for her :) So she got up and took a 3:30 am shower and then slept soundly until about 6:45. What a funny little girl :)
Emma makes me laugh because of all the nice gifts she received I think if you asked her what she got she would say "A picture of Santa and Mrs. Claus". That is the thing she is most proud of! :) Too cute.
We had a wonderful morning and day. I love technology...we were able to skype with both sets of parents and that way they could SEE what the kids got for Christmas. How fun! Then that afternoon we went down to see my sis in Port St. Lucie. What a wonderful day!
Emma made a cute little ornament at school and I thought the cutest part was the paper bag wrapping that she decorated to put it in...How sweet!
This picture cracks me up because they all got DS's and were all lined up playing them at the same time! Cute kids!
