Christmas Eve

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve celebrating the holiday season!

We started the morning by making candy cane cookies. 

Beau helped with rolling the dough, but mostly he enjoyed playing in it. 

Then he helped stir a big batch of hot chocolate. 

He even added chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and mini marshmallows. Yum!  

Later in the day Beau played in the sunshine in the leftover bits of snow and ice. 

Every little boy loves exploring with sticks! 

After playing in the snow, Beau got his first really bloody lip.  Just as we were about to walk out the door for lunch he slipped on the kitchen chair and his his chin on the table.  He had so much blood in his mouth we thought he might need stitches.  Luckily lips just bleed a lot and the cut wasn't too bad.  After a quick change of clothes, we were ready to go. 

We spent the evening at church and Beau enjoyed a candy cane.  He really did have a nice time, but it was getting really late so he has his sleepy eyes.  

Right before bed we put out cookies for Santa.  By this point Beau could barely keep his eyes open. Ha!