Christmas Eve

Christmas this year was with the Hintons, and it was a great one! We spent Christmas Eve hanging out, playing games, and watching Christmas movies. (Tyler had fun showing Preston an old tape of Christmas cartoons he recorded from TV when he was young.) Poor Becky had to work most of the day at the bakery, and we figured the last thing she'd want to do when she got home was cook some more. So we all pitched in and cooked Christmas dinner together. Ham, sour cream potatoes, green bean casserole, sunshine carrots, jello salad--it makes my mouth water just remembering it! It was ready and waiting when she got home, and I think she was pretty happy that she got to rest for the rest of the day.

Since Ashton still won't eat ham or potatoes (or anything, really), he enjoyed his own dinner beforehand with Papa Carlton.

Once everyone's dinner was over and cleaned up, it was time to bathe some little boys and get ready for bed.

Rub-a-dub-dub, three boys in a tub

The boys took the plastic nativity set in the tub with them. A pretty appropriate Christmas Eve activity, I say. Ashton had fun showing us all the animals, like the donkey, the sheep...

...and the cows. I love how Carter is frantically running away from the shampoo in Grandma's hands (behind Ashton).

For some reason, Carter was fine letting Ashton wash him. :)

And Ashton was happy to have Grandma wash his hair!

My cute, clean boy singing a bath time song.

This picture doesn't really have anything to do with anything. I just think Ashton has the cutest expressions sometimes, and this happens to be one of them.

Once all the boys were clean, it was time to open the Christmas pajamas!

(I think Ashton is wondering what he should be so excited about...)

Trying on the new PJs.

Unfortunately, this is the best picture we could get of him once he was dressed. He was tired and did not want to cooperate with my phone camera. They are pretty cute pajamas, though.

The rest of the evening we spent by the tree, and then it was off to bed.

And of course we could hardly wait until morning!