Christmas 2014!

What a wonderful Christmas we had here at the Harris house! Vince was on shift Christmas day so we celebrated on Christmas Eve...but it all started for us on the night of the 23rd! We started a new tradition this year, a Christmas Eve present! When I was a kid we used to invite family over for Christmas Eve and open all of their gifts, then Christmas morning was for our Santa's presents. It always made Christmas Eve so exciting so we decided to do something similar this year for our boys. I pictured it in my last post but our Christmas Eve gift was Star Wars themed and the boys LOVED it! We got all the best movie snacks, some Star Wars toys to play with during the non-battle scenes and all six Star Wars movies to watch!

In their matching pj's out of their Christmas Eve present! They are so dang cute!

Yummy movie snacks!

He was so excited he could barely contain himself!

Lining up his Star Wars action figures.

All my boys :)

It.Was.Awesome.

Vince has never seen the Star Wars movies (apparently he spent the first 28 years of his life living under a rock) but he really liked them which is good since we have four more to go until we've watched them all!

The one good thing I realized about celebrating Christmas on the 24th is everything is still OPEN! I woke up early to cook the kids breakfast then after we had our fill we turned up the Christmas music and went to town unwrapping all the gifts! We spent the next hour putting everything together and letting the kids play then it was onto Atlanta!

Did you know that on the 24th of December the High Museum of Atlanta has free admission?!?! Score. 

We ran a few errands which included Ikea for lunch and to the Green Egg "mother ship" store for charcoal and somehow walked out with a new medium size green egg (I'm still not completely sure how this happen) and then to the museum!!!

Nash was all over the place. Like, I thank the Lord he didn't end up costing us thousands with the way he kept trying to TOUCH EVERYTHING! I think I had at least three mini heart attacks...but Mas loved it, especially the really old pieces.

Posing in front of honest Abe!

Nash just before he tried to lift the painting off the wall...mini heart attack number one.

Nash's face in this picture is priceless.

Abstract family photo

Mas doing a little painting!

Nash painting!

After all our running around in Atlanta we headed to our Christmas Eve services at church, the music and gospel were great but the best part was at communion. Vince had taken Nash to the bathroom right before it started so when we began Mas asked me if he could go up with me to get communion. I told him he could but that he needed to talk to his Daddy when he got back so that he understood exactly what he was participating in. By the time Vince got back we had come back to our seats, Vince explained how important this moment was and then they said the sinner's pray. It was the best gift Mas could have given us! Mas took his very first communion and his respond to it all was "Why didn't you tell me all this earlier?" Followed by "The blood wine juice was the best"...he is such a goofball. But we are so very proud of him, we could not ask for anything more as his parents then him to grow up following the ways of Christ. 

It was a blessed Christmas indeed!