'Twas the Night Before Christmas

This year, as usual, we crammed our Christmas Eve with fun activities. We baked up a storm, as we do every Christmas Eve...we like to give Santa fresh cookies. We also celebrated Christmas at Gammy's house in the evening, opened 1 gift, wrote our letter to Santa, made a snack, and headed of excitedly (an exhausted) to bed.

We made chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, and cupcakes (beautifully decorated by the master chefs themselves) for gammy's house and for Santa.

Later, when we got to Gammy's house, we were surrounded in gifts. Our Gammy spoils all of us rotten, even the adults. She got way too many gifts this year, but no one seemed to mind.











Gammy and Gampy got Kendall the Mrs. Goodsbee dollhouse (the ONLY thing she wanted really, really badly). Natalie got karaoke machine and she is in love with it. Nolan played with his Brobee silly head doll that Gammy and Gampy got him all night.












Christmas at Gammy and Gampy's is the best. We got to see Aunt Teresa, Uncle Dennis, Gammy, Gampy, and our Aunt Dani. We opened all of our gifts, ate some snacks and desserts, and spent a nice evening together. We headed home at bedtime to prepare for Santa's arrival, Santa was on his way!!!





















When we arrived home, Mommy and Daddy has set 1 gift aside for each child to open on Christmas Eve. This year, like every year, they each got a new set of pajamas. We like to look our best when Santa's coming to our house. The kids wore their new pj's and we put Nolan to bed. The girls wrote a note to Santa (Natalie wrote it this year, and at the end put a disclaimer about any "mispeld" words), we got a plate ready for Santa, and decided to leave him warm cocoa this year.


We all went to bed so that Santa could work his magic...