We have family movie night each night the week of Christmas but Thursday night Libby went to bed a little upset that we hadn't watched a movie. Well, little did she know that was because we had something a little different planned. She got into bed and we said goodnight and closed her door. About two minutes later we burst into her room and yelled, "SURPRISE! It's Christmas cruising time!!" During the two minutes that Libby was in her room alone thinking she was going to sleep Ryan and I had changed into our pj's and got some hot chocolate ready. After we ran into her room we quickly scooped her up from her bed and ran out to the car. She had no idea what was going on. :-) We drove around looking at Christmas lights and listening to Christmas music. Once we got back home and she got back into bed she said that having the surprise Christmas lights viewing was worth skipping our nightly movie. :-)
I was off for Christmas Eve so Libby and I spent the day at home in our pj's watching Christmas movies and making Christmas crafts. Ryan got home at 2:30pm from work and we left at 4:30pm to head to his parents' house for an early dinner followed by the Christmas Eve church service. After church we went back to their house to open presents and have lots of baked goodies that Ryan's mom made. We got home Christmas Eve night and Ryan and Libby each opened a present (pj's) and we put out cookies for Santa and Libby got into bed at about 10:00pm. At about 10:15 she heard Santa's sleigh bells and knew that he had entered the area so she tried to go to sleep as fast as she could. Santa's sleigh bells rang a few more times faintly outside of her window and each time she'd close her eyes even tigher and giggle.
Christmas morning she was up at 6:30 ready to tear into her presents. She was very happy with everything and said that everything was perfect. :-) I hope that everyone had as wonderful of a Christmas as we did!
