Christmas Eve!

As we complete another year as a family of four, our Christmas traditions have really been like clockwork for us, which has been nice since we can have some sort of schedule during a hectic, but wonderful time.


Hot cocoa time. The personalized mugs are from Grandma Sharon. The cocoa from the "Cocoamotion" we got from the Goodys (Jerrod, Megan and kids). Seriously: pour in milk, add cocoa, hit start and you're good to go in about 5 minutes.

The last couple of years, Delaney has dictated a letter to Santa with Brittany willing and ready to write down every word. This year Delaney talked about how much she's enjoyed school, how much she loves her mommy, daddy and sister and asked a couple of questions about Santa's reindeer. Very cute.

Addy is somewhat into the letter, but at two years old, mostly just wanted to roam around the living room.

I wish I could say this is a photo of mommy listening intently to Adelyn's additions to the letter. It's not. Addy's getting a little Christmas discipline. "If you're not nice then Santa's not coming to Kittitas"............or something like that. Those were Brittany's thoughts. I try not to be the bad parent and leave all the mean things for Brittany to do.

I would say about 95% of our ornaments are specific to our family or a trip we took. This one sent to us this year is from Dad and Sharon of personalized snowmen caroling. The one above that is something D-Rae made at school to give to Brittany (you can probably make out the picture of Delaney. It made Brittany tear up!)

Opening up a Christmas present from Uncle James and Aunt Sanda...........

...........which were new books for Christmas and some workbooks and flash cards. Very fun.

Putting out treats for Santa and his crew. Cookies and milk for Santa. Carrots and broccoli along with a big bowl of water for the reindeer.

Brittany reading the girls' new Christmas books right before bedtime.

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