Santa Claus is coming to town...

Christmas eve morning and the house was a-buzz. Preparing snacks for Christmas eve lunch with Grandma and enjoying the magic getting ready to take place.

My radish "roses",  jalapeno' pinwheels, and vegetable platter... yaaaay for veggies!

 Grandma is here!

Opening a few gifts...

After Grandma went home, it was time to settle down and relax a bit before kicking the final 24 hour Santa countdown into gear. We opened the last door on the advent calendars revealing their tiny chocolate Santa face surprises...

Opening of the annual Chrismtas jammies for after bathtime...

Fell in love with the vintage print Santa flannel material... bonus - it had pockets!

A nice warm bath... of course we had to check out Joshua's new bubble blowing bath toy.

Big silly fun, just like we like!

Squeaky clean Littles fresh from the bath and comfy in new Christmas jammies...

goofing around with Daddy...



Time to bake Santa's cookies...

 A round of Candy Land while waiting for the cookies to bake to perfection...



A cold glass of milk, delicious fresh baked cookies and a nice crisp carrot for Rudolph placed carefully by the tree... refreshments for Santa's stop at our place.



And we are down to the wire... he's coming... the big fat man decked out in red velvet! We are ready.  This is one of the coolest parts ever about being a parent...the traditions we gift our children with. We as parents have the power to make magic. Magic I tell you! How freakin awesome is that?!

Waiting for Santa...



Tasty Little Holiday Nuggets

Some random little nuggets as we cruise through the holiday season...

We had a visit with some of our dearest friends and celebrated Christmas with our Littles.

Precious Hannah and her mommy.



Scoping out the dollhouse Abbie got from her friend. Much fun!

Hannah opening gifts... in normal kid fashion the wrapping is more fun thatn whats inside! ;-)

Putting coins in her piggy bank...

She is a little angel... we love her.



Josh enjoying the train he received from his friend Hannah, although the way he kept scoping her out, I think he has a secret crush. ;-)



Abbie received shoes from a couple co-workers (this kid loves her some shoes). A dear friend bought her a gorgeous pair of little Lelli Kelly sneakers, and she also received a pair of cute little sweater boots.

Joshua received an adorable Kenneth Cole jean outfit from a dear friend... an adorable t-shirt with guitar silkscreened, coordinating plaid long sleeve button down and a pair of big boy jeans.To say he will be handsome in it is an understatement. This boy will rock this outfit.



The cute-ness they are when they know that you're looking...

The things they do when they don't think you're looking...



Checking for any updates on Santa via the NORAD Santa tracker.

(At 2, she is extremely computer literate... its scary.)

 

Not much longer... Santa is on his way!

 

Silent night, holy night.... sleep in heavenly peace.