Christmas Eve recap

We spent Christmas Eve with J's family at his parents' house and arrived to find a fresh blanket of snow, probably 18 inches deep, covering the ground and every other horizontal surface. It was truly a winter wonderland and created the perfect setting for memorable holiday festivities - snowball fights, G'ma T pulling the Girl up and down the driveway in her sled and a holiday hunt.

Here is the Girl opening up a fairy costume from her aunt. She was so excited and immediately shed her clothes in order to put it on.

The gang posing for a picture after the Holiday Hunt.

The Holiday Hunt - similar to an Easter egg hunt but searching for a gift with your name on it and the ultimate goal of finding the reindeer prize, which the Girl happened to find.

The Girl wearing a Rudolph nose from the reindeer prize.

And of course, what would the holidays be without delicious food?! My sister-in-law made these cute little guys.

We headed home just after 10:00 and the Girl had her eyes on the sky the entire drive home searching for Santa and his sleigh. She was completely crushed when we arrived home and there were no presents from the jolly fella under our tree. She thought Santa had forgotten about her. So sad! We quickly explained that he wouldn't come to our house until she was asleep. She high-tailed it up the stairs (she refused to even spend a few moments setting out a plate of cookies that she had made the day before) and to her room where she threw herself onto the bed and said that she didn't want to read any stories, she just wanted to go to sleep. She also ordered J and I to bed. After I had brushed her teeth and was headed for the door she requested that I bring her Rudolph nose. She wanted to wear it (it flashes) so that Rudolph could see the flashing light and find her house.