Cupcakes For Jesus and A Present For Brady

While I'm waiting on my last pie to bake, I thought I'd do a quick post.

One tradition that I wanted to start with our kids was to bake a cake, or this year, cupcakes for Jesus on Christmas Eve. It's just one more way that we can incorporate the birth of Jesus into our Christmas story.

My mom sent an adorable Christmas cupcake kit for Brady and I, so it turned out the be just the perfect thing!

I baked and iced the cupcakes, then B got to help me decorate.

When we were all finished, we took one, lit a candle, and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus! (I'll post that video in a separate post.)

Brady was excited to start mixing the food coloring into the frosting.

And then he grabbed the bottle of "polka dots" we were using to decorate.

And ate a few of them, of course.

Placing our "polka dots".

He was all to eager to dish out the sprinkles.

And here we are with one of our finished cupcakes.

(B pretty much did all of the decorating by himself!)

Another tradition, that I'm carrying on, is that our kids get to open one present on Christmas Eve. For us, it was usually our Christmas p.j.'s, but since we have boys, I didn't think p.j.'s would be too exciting for them. Instead, I let B choose which one he wanted to open.

He was practically vibrating when I brought the two presents out for him to choose from.

He chose the "Imagination Movers" DVD that my dad sent and was excited to show it off. He wanted to open it right away, so we let him stay up a bit late and watch one episode.

The look of concentration on that sweet face says it all!