Christmas eve

 Jammies as always.

We got to have an open house this year and was fun to get to visit with friends.  It was hard to spread the word since it kind of snuck up on me, but we still had a good enough turn out that the kids had fun.  Hopefully we can do it again next year too.
We recently had a lot of dental work done on a few of the kids so we kept telling them that Christmas was going t o be small this year.  And it should have been while we payed off the credit card that covered the dental work. but we unwisely (though we probably do it the same all over again) put aside the credit card and payed for Christmas instead.  So...when the kids went to bed they thought the 2 boxes of presents (below) were all they were getting

and this was our tree since we decided to forgo a tree to save the money.