Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!  What a joyous holiday!  We have so much to celebrate and feel very blessed this holiday season. 

 

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve, just the four of us, quiet at home!  We really enjoyed how low key the day was.

 Pizza arrived for his last day with our family before he travels back to the North Pole for the rest of the year!

Cora played with her new bubble maker

We baked cookies

 And, then we got ready to go to Christmas Eve service at church.  It was a beautiful candle-lit ceremony, and we all got to hold candles and sing Silent Night - that was the girls' favorite part!

Marcus got a selfie stick from my Mom for Christmas.  Haha, he hates taking selfies but he sure is good with the stick!

 After church, I finished cooking dinner and the girls exchanged their presents to each other in the playroom.

We face-timed with Pa and he read us the annual reading of "The Night Before Christmas."  It was really special!

Setting out milk, cookies and carrots for Santa and the reindeer!

We went to bed.....and then...SANTA came!!!

Pure joy & excitement!

Sonoma was excited to get the beauty doll head that she did a modeling job with for a catalog!

Diaper bag for Cora's baby!

2 new pets joined our family:  African Dwarf Water Frogs!  Thank you, Santa!  What a fun surprise!

One of my favorite presents:  an ornament Cora made for me and Daddy at PDO.  It's one of the best pictures I have ever seen of Cora!

Red Velvet Pancakes & hot cocoa with fun Olaf toppings received for Christmas! 

We had such a fun, relaxing day playing with new toys, watching "A Christmas Story," going on runs outside, and then making fettuccine for dinner.  I love our little family & truly had a wonderful day!  

Merry Christmas from our family to you and yours! 

xoxo