Christmas eve!

Today we just relaxed around the house during the day. We keep telling Layla that tonight Santa is coming and dropping off all of her presents and she gets to open them tomorrow morning and she is so excited. We even had the Santa tracker up on the computer all day so we could see where Santa was at. This evening before we went to dinner, we went to look at the reindeer one more time and we brought them carrots this time so that Layla could feed them. We told her that they had to eat dinner so they could fly all over the world to take Santa to all the kid's houses. She had so much fun throwing carrots out the car window (it was way too cold to get out of the car). But I think Ed had the most fun out of anyone. After that we met Matt, Shell, and Evan for some dinner only to find that every single thing was closed (let me just reiterate that I hate Graf. This would have never happened in Mainz or Wiesbaden). So we ended up finding a doner stand that was open. We got some fries and doners and headed back to the house to eat. Layla and Evan played while the four of us played some Wii. It was a lot of fun and even though it didn't turn out exactly how we wanted it to, we had a great time. After they left our tradition is to let Layla open one present that she can pick out. Well, she wanted to open the "big, purple one" from Grandma and Grandpa. She was so excited to open it, it ended up being a Fancy Nancy doll. She is so cute, Layla even had to go to bed with her tonight. Once her present was open we had her set out cookies and milk for Santa, read her some Christmas stories and she fell fast asleep. Then it was time for the presents to come out! I was so excited to put everything under the tree, I made Ed run downstairs asap and get the presents. I love playing Santa, it is the best! There were presents everywhere! After that Ed and I hopped into bed and watched Tropic Thunder (which is hilarious, by the way) and fell asleep. All in all it was a great Christmas eve and one to remember since Ed won't be here with us next year!