Christmas Eve

This is our first Christmas at home and so we are making a lot of new memories and traditions. We started the morning off making Reindeer food (oatmeal and colored sugar) to put out before bed for Santa's reindeer. Then after naptime, we made and decorated birthday cakes for Jesus. We had been debating what kind of cake Jesus would like and the twins came up with chocolate cake with pink frosting. Originally I was going to make one cake but then as we were baking I quickly decided to leave the layers apart and give each of the twins their own cake to decorate. Lily woke up from her nap just as we started so I quickly came up with an option for her too. A birthday tree!
I gave Jake white frosting since I didn't think he'd like the pink too much. He picked out green and yellow sprinkles to decorate with.

Abby opted for pink and red sprinkles with her pink frosting.

Lily had a pink tree with pastel sprinkles. She mainly ate the sprinkles but did get a few on her tree.

After we decorated, we put candles on the cake and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus. We had so much fun doing this. Next year I'll have to make three cakes though.

Later that night before baths, we ran oustside in the rain to put feed out for the reindeer. The kids had so much fun running around the yard sprinkling the food around. Jake was careful and planned the best places for the food too. So cute.