our christmas eve box

we did things a little differently this year since we would be spending our christmas in denver. we have some christmas eve traditions and i wanted to make sure that we were able to still do them even though we wouldn't be at our house. my crafty solution to my dilemma was to make december 22 our christmas eve and december 23rd our christmas day. this actually worked out perfectly since the harness's chose to celebrate christmas that day as well... the little's got a full day of present opening!

each year the little's always open 1 gift on christmas eve, new pi's. i discovered a fabulous idea while perusing pinterest and added some goodies! the little's had 1 large box to open and within that box there were individually wrapped gifts for each of them: holiday pi's, hot cocoa mugs, hot cocoa packets, popcorn, the Polar Express movie, and the Polar Express book. it was so much fun watching them open  everything.

after opening their christmas eve box they changed into their new pi's and enjoyed hot cocoa, popcorn, a new read, and a new movie. we saved the rest of our christmas eve traditions for december 24th in colorado.