Santa's Nice List!

On Christmas Eve, the kids left out cookies and milk (and as you can see, Santa enjoyed them!) and sprinkled "Christmas Dust" in the snow! The glitter and sugar will sparkle in the moonlight and help Santa find our house and the smell of oatmeal will guide the reindeer!

Max had asked for the Emperor's Ship from Lego Star Wars and Cate asked for a Tea Party. So, as you can see....they must have been on his Nice List!

On Christmas morning, we went up to get the kids so they wouldn't see what they got on the way down the stairs to get us. As they caught the first glimpses on the stairs, it was priceless to see the looks on their faces!

Upon seeing Santa's handiwork on the Lego ship, Max told his daddy, "It's a good thing that you didn't have to build this, it would have taken you forever, like 20 hours!" That right there is a a sure sign that he still believes. And FYI...it actually only took "Santa" 10-12 hours.

Cate immediately started serving everyone tea and pushing her cart to each person in the room.

After they played with those gifts for about 20 minutes, we looked in our stockings. The kids got videos and other fun little things, I got new dish gloves from William Sonoma and some Dr. Peppers, Matt got jumbo packs of gum and new white t-shirts!

We then opened some more gifts from Matt's side of the family and family friends. Once that loot was opened, we had the traditional Cinnamon Monkey Bread and got ready for Mass.

After Mass, we headed over to my brother's house for more food and gifts from my side of the family! Stay tuned!