Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was VERY eventful at our house starting off with a morning accident involving Evan's face and one of our bar stools falling on it.  Poor baby!  It swelled up instantly like a big golf ball on his forehead.  We put ice on it and called the doctor, but luckily he didn't appear to have signs of a concussion.  We just tried to take it easy for the day, which is pretty hard for a 2 year old boy, and gave him Tylenol for the pain.  Luckily Jim was home for the day so that made things a little easier. 

Christmas Eve night we were able to attend our church's Christmas Eve service.  It was a nice event with little kid's singing, treats for all the kids during the service, and a good message for the season helping us to remember the true meaning, the celebration of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ! 

Here we are right before the service.  You can see the bruise on Evan's face, but a happy boy! :)

Mommy and her sweet girl in her Christmas dress.

After the service we headed to meet my family for a Christmas Eve meal at Coco's.  It was a great dinner and we had wonderful service.  At this point in the evening, Evan started to become pretty clingy and didn't want to eat any of his food. He really only wanted to be held.  We of course forgot to bring any medicine and decided to stop at the drug store to pick some up before heading back over to my parents house were we were going to be opening family presents.  

Once arriving at the house we gave Evan some medicine and he was sitting with Jim just resting while we took these pictures below...

My parent's beautiful Christmas tree.

Evie with Grandma and Grandpa Thompson and Great Grandma Shirley

...and all of a sudden he THREW UP all over Jim! 

Of course we didn't have any extra clothes for Evan or Jim.  Evan ended up just wearing his a diaper and socks and we draped him with a towel and Jim borrowed some clothes from my dad.  Good times! :)

Here is our family after all the excitement.

It didn't take Evan too long to perk up a little when he realized that we were going to be opening up presents.  Especially, after he opened up the first one- Percy!  He had been asking, and asking for this friend of Thomas the Tank Engine.  He was so excited and thrilled and I think immediately felt a little bit better. You can really see the bruise in the pictures below.  From the side we thought he looked a little like a Star Trek character, one of the Klingons- poor little babe.

Then it kept getting better and better when he also received two new Thomas track add-ons.  He was thrilled!

Evie got to get in on the fun too!  She got a Little People bike from Grandma Shirley 

and a cool doll house to name a few of the generous gifts she got from family that night. 

I love how she is looking at the doll house in this picture.

This picture cracks me up....Evan helping Aunt Debra open her present in his modified Christmas Eve outfit.

Here is a wonderful picture of my parents together that night. 

Evie also got this beautiful name sign from Aunt Debra and Uncle Rhett.  It was very special, especially since, they also got us one for Evan last Christmas.  I just love personal gifts like this!

All in all it was a wonderful Christmas Eve.  We definitely have some awesome and very memorable stories to look back on in the future.  Here is one final picture of our little guy at the end of the night.  He was pooped!