Christmas Eve festivities

Our sweet princess playing her "violin"

 This year we had 9 adults and 3 kiddies.  It was a perfect little group but we sure missed Auntie Sarah and Uncle Frank! They were up visiting Auntie Sarah's family this year.  We did have Auntie Kelly and Uncle Rob's company though which was awesome!! We had a full italian feast with Paola's italian sauce as our main course and of course Nonno made his famous clams casino and mommy and daddy made homemade minestrone soup in the crockpot and it was a huge hit! We had a huge spread of amazing cheeses courtesy of Auntie Kelly and Grandma made baked ziti.  I'm getting stuffed just thinking about it.  We opened presents and had desert then got ready for Santa to come by putting out his cookies and milk and sprinkling reindeer food on the lawn.  Oh how we love this day!!!

Nonno and bear

Grandma playing cars with her munchkins

Bentley hanging with Grandma

This little lady make's mommy's heart burst!

3 generations!

Nana and Nonno...the best chef's we know!

Uncle Rob and Kennedy

The day started off rainy and ended up sunny enough for Grandma and Daddy to visit outside

Mama and bear!

Nana, Auntie Kelly, and baby Kennedy

Look at Kennedy's cute dress!

I hung all our Christmas cards from our cabinets this year.  We loved being able to see them all!

Our Christmas table

Handsome daddy and his sweet Phi

Nonno and Presto

Grandma digging in to the minestrone soup!

I made this Christmas tree for Presto for his 1 year birthday and now we put it out every year

Mommy and Daddy hanging at the kiddie table with Presto

Mama and sweet Kenney

Presto loved blowing out his candles

Bear opening his present

Yay!! I'm officially 3!

Grandma and Grandpa

Kennedy's first time opening Christmas presents!

The Alvarado family!

A bear and his presents

New undies!!

Grandma and Grandpa showing off the picture we got for them

Phi Phi was definitely excited for present time

Grandpa showing off his ornament we made for him

Nana got a cool blakey for Auntie Kelly's doggie Boo

Grandma showing Phia the ornament we made for her

Presto was so overwhelmed, he kept saying "I want to open another present!!"

Bentley and Kennedy checking out Kennedy's new toy

This was Presto's first year and he was so excited!!

Sprinkling reindeer food on the lawn

A good view of the amazing job Daddy did on the lights this year.  We had huge hanging bulbs in the trees...so pretty!!

Daddy explaining to Phia how hungry Santa is going to be when he gets to our house

Sitting out the cookies for Santa

Sophia wrote a letter for Santa and was very concerned how he was going to fit down the chimney!