A look into our Christmas

First I want to send warm wishes to everyone on this very happy and merry Christmas Day. I hope you are enjoying your day and making tons of wonderful memories with the ones you love!

We started our Christmas festivities last night (of course) with a fabulous Christmas Eve meal...roast chicken, roasted brussel sprouts, out of this world mashed potatoes and a yummy celery salad. After dinner we packed our little elves into the car to go to Bubby Knotts farm (a.k.a the Christmas Farm...according to Zachary) to see the wondeful Christmas light display. After a quick drive through at the farm, we headed home, kids all snug in their jammies and ready for bed. Zachary spread the magic reindeer dust all over the front yard to insure Santas sleigh would find its way here.

We got the kids to bed, enjoyed a few glasses of wine and went to bed ourselves (not before 2 hours of Santa toy assembly, however ;) ).

This morning we woke to Zachary whispering "Mom, wake up, it's baby Jesus' birthday and we have to make him breakfast" (HOW CUTE IS THAT!?!?!?)

Then we crept down the hallway to see if Santa had visited...and guess what, HE DID! Some little children in our house must have been good all year long :). It all went a little something like this...

Z: Oh my, what is all this?

A: Looks like some new toys

Z: Oh, thank you Mommy!

A: Oh, don't thank me, honey, Santa left these for you

Z: WOW!

Madeline is a little under the weather so we let her sleep but when she woke up, she was very excited to see the toys that were left for her and has been playing "mommy" to her new babies all morning!

Now, on to the pictures....

Madeline putting her new baby to bed
Z rockin' out with his new microphone

Dave and Z trying out Z's new binoculars

(Thanks Aunt Sarah and Uncle Sean!!!)

All wrapped up in her new blanket

Our tree

And now, while the kiddies sleep, I am updating the blog, Dave is hanging out. We've got wine mulling on the stove and our friends and neighbors, the Wolfe's (Scott, Mary, Natalie and David) will be over in a few hours for our Christmas feast (lamb chops, roasted root veggies, sausage stuffing, scalloped potatoes and pumpkin crisp for dessert...YUM!). Hope you all have a great day and I'll post more when we are back from our Christmas tour! :)

Until then...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!