Riley's first Christmas Eve

What a sweet celebration Christmas was this year! Riley makes everything more joyful, special, and fun!!

We spent Christmas Eve with my family. We started off the evening by attending our church's candlelight service. There were so many people there this year that we had to sit at the very top and on the last row. But I was glad, I wanted a quick exit in case Riley got a little crazy. The seats also made for an awesome view of the hundreds and hundreds of lit candles. What a beautiful worship! Oh and Riley did amazing. Not one peep, she just stared and stared at all the people.

After the service, we checked out some fun Christmas lights (a tradition). Then we headed back to the house to fill our bellies then we opened presents.

Riley was very observant when it came to opening the presents and even helped pull the paper off. Here we are with one really fun toy (a rocking caterpillar) It was one of the few toys that didn't make some crazy sound. Yikes, I better enjoy the quiet now! :)

Even Scout got in on the action.

Santa came and brought Riley a fun new swing, some new shoes, and the remaining presents were from the night before (She had to go to bed before she was finished opening all of her presents.)

Here Riley is posing in some super cute outfits Mom and Dad got Riley.