Christmas Eve/ Christmas

I was delighted to discover that Basha's had pre cut sugar cookies, which made making cookies for Santa a zero stress activity. A HUGE downside was that they didn't taste very good :( at least Audrey had fun, and I didn't eat more cookies than one person should partake.

That night we went to Granny Jules to do the Nativity and caroling with the kazoos.

Brandon was so cute, and was able to get his working. It got a little hard with him because he wanted to just run around like normal.

This is probably my favorite shot of the night. Love it! Cracks me up, and the undone button on my dads coat just makes it perfect.

Eating donuts and drinking hot chocolate. This is one attractive shot of Audrey I must say :).

Next was opening up jammies. These were the girls.

These were Brandon's jammies as you can tell from the look of distaste on his face he is not a fan of footsie jammies.

Christmas morning was so fun. Audrey got a dress up closet and more dress ups than she needs and a scooter. This dress up closet was a slightly bigger project than one of Santa's Elves had anticipated. BUT it got finished with a little help from my mom and Audrey loves it.

She had to put on a dress up in order to go through the rest of the presents.

Brandon got a wagon and some cars, books and other boy things. It was a perfect day!

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