Turtle's First Christmas Eve

Twas the night before Christmas... Yay!)

It's Turtle's first and we are going all out. We were crazy today with errands, cooking, baking, cleaning and getting things ready for Santa. We didn't make it to church, because Turtle slept through to 4:30 (mass started at 4), but we're going to try to start going in the New Year.

After Turtle's dinner and bath, we put out cookies & milk for Santa, as well as carrots for the rein-pugs. I mean reindeer. Silly me.



Turtle wants to know who this Santa dude is and why he gets cookies, when Turtle is still getting Cheerios. Something doesn't seem right about this!



Next up, Daddy read Twas the Night Before Christmas to Turtle and the pugs. Turtle thought that since he didn't get any cookies, the book would be tasty.



Then it was off to bed.

Santa visited our house early since the Turtle went to bed so quickly, so we were able to capture the evidence of his devoured cookie plate...



And all the gifts under the tree!



DH and I had a delicious dinner of marinated skirt steak, homemade guacamole, yellow rice and plantains and an Australian shiraz and we're now watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing caroles. It's a lovely evening.

To all our friends and family: Happy Holidays and all our love to you and yours.