Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is filled with anticipation and excitement. We were grateful to have some fun things planned to keep the kids entertained and it's always fun to spend time with cousins!

We met at the Seattle Center and checked out the miniature train and village.

The kids could take turns driving the locomotive.

Then we watched a comedy stunt show by Matt Baker featured on America's Got Talent! It was pretty good and best of all.. free!

We sat in the front row!

Maybe that's why he picked Uncle Mat to come up and be a part of the show.

Here he is teaching Mat how to spit a ping pong ball high up into the air, and then try to catch it again in his mouth. Really, he just wanted all of us to see how hard it was so we would be super impressed when he could juggle ping pong balls with his mouth.

Next, we headed over to the ice rink.

I really didn't think this guy would last long, but it only cost $2.00 for him to skate and the little ice skates were sooo cute.

He surprised us and loved it! These little support bars were perfect for little ones.

Emma was especially comfortable with hers. Watch out!

Linsey skated around looking cute and cool.

Hunter was a maniac and flew around the rink so fast, I never even got a picture.

Austin skated the entire time. Towards the end, I knew he was tired... it was way past his nap time. He still wouldn't agree to leaving. He just laid his head down for a little rest and then was right back to skating.


We came home and enjoyed a yummy ham dinner and then had our Christmas Eve program.

Here all the kids are in their new PJ's, all ready for bed!

Ohhh... the excitement!