Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning

Now that we're back home from our Christmas travels, I can download the pictures from the old camera that Grandpa L's computer didn't like (Do you think Grandpa L just wanted to make sure we segued quickly to our new camera???).


On Christmas Eve we opened our family gifts and spent the afternoon playing with them. Here is Jr. Princess with her Santa hat, which she wanted really bad to match the Santa outfit from Grandpa L, using her new window markers from Starshine. (Parts of me think these will only lead to trouble, but Crayola claims they are washable.) We then made our Christmas dinner - and the girls love that it the only time I let them drink out of fancy glasses.





We then did our traditional drive to look at Christmas lights with cookies and hot cocoa in the car. A house a few miles away always has a fantastic light/art object. While it isn't usually Christmasy, it is usually spectacular...



Santa came the next morning, and the girls were very excited because he brought exactly what they asked for (shiny rocks and presents with things in them, if you'll recall from the Santa letters).

It was wonderful family time before we drove back to Wisconsin to visit all of our extended family.

Mom was right we got what we wanted.

Ooh - I love to be right :).