Christmas Eve- What to my Wondering Eyes Should Appear

Mommy and Wyatt had been counting down the days with an Advent calendar and today was the last day which means Santa Claus is coming tonight!  We had done a lot of cool Christmas activities with Wyatt this year including having weekly drives around the neighborhood/town looking/admiring all of the cool Christmas lights and displays, decorating the Christmas tree with family, walking the boardwalk at night and looking at all those cool beachy lights, seeing "Arthur Saves Christmas", and even getting to see Santa once or twice. 

To say that Wyatt was ready for Christmas to come is an understatement.  He was so excited to hear that everyone was going to come over to celebrate and help him get all ready for Santa.

Wyatt and Momma woke on Christmas Eve all ready in the Christmas spirit!

Wyatt had been asking for weeks when Santa Claus was going to come to the house and give him presents.  Although at first Wyatt was convinced that Santa would take all of his current toys in exchange for the new ones.  It took a while to get him to shake that idea.  Now that he knows Santa will come and just leave some super cool new stuff he is back on board with Ol St. Nick!

We hosted Christmas Eve at our house this year.  It is so nice to have the new house and have everyone over.  It is cool to have everyone over to the house helping us to build more and more memories here.  And so great to share the house with everyone as it starts to take shape more and more and become more ours each day.
Here is the table filled with all of our appetizer goodies:

This is the dining room/living room area all decked out for Christmas and ready for the delicious dinner about to be enjoyed!

For Christmas Eve we had: Great Grandma Peggy,Great Auntie Sheree & Great Uncle Dave, Pappy, Grandma, Daddy, Mommy, Sugar, and of course Wy-wy:

Everyone really enjoyed their dinner and we had TONS of food!!  Even Sugar got to have her very own plate of all the delicious eats- Hey it was Christmas after all;

After dinner, Grandma read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to Wyatt:

And afterward Wyatt demanded a piggy ride:

Then we each got to open one of our gifts:

Even Baby Sug who got some super yummy treats- what a happy doggy:

Then we laid out the desserts for more feasting!

Great Grandma Peggy and Wyatt watched "The Wizard of Oz" while Great Aunt Sheree, Great Uncle Dave, Mommy, Grandma, Pappy, and Daddy played Phase 10.

It was starting to get late and Wyatt swore that he heard sleighbells so it was time to get ourselves prepared for Santa's big debut.  Wyatt got to choose all the cookies he wanted to give to Santa Claud.

Wyatt, our little Count, saying Wyatt has four cookies.  FOUR AHH AHH AHH FOUR COOKIES!

And of course a special cookie for Santa that had his name on it!

Of course we don't want Santa to be thirsty so we poured him some milk too.

And laid it out on the table with Wyatt and Sugar's stockings all ready to be filled up with good goodies.

Of course we couldn't forget about those hard working reindeer.  When we went to Nicola pizza for the Christmas lights they gave us this special package of reindeer food to sprinkle on the lawn so they can have a little snack while Santa does his work.

Remember there are eight reindeer so they need a lot of food:

Then it was time to send Wyatt off to dreamland so Santa could sneek in and leave all of the presents under the tree.  Wyatt was one special good little boy this year so he knew that he was going to get a lot of neat things.  And Wyatt couldn't wait for the magic to begin...