Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Christmas Day

Christmas morning the kiddies were beyond excited! We usually go over to Nana and Nonno's for Christmas brunch but their power went out(from the crazy wind!!) so they came over and we ate brunch at our house.  Nonno makes an awesome omelette and the kiddos had Christmas pancakes.  That evening we headed out to Nana's house and she made us a yummy Christmas dinner.  The big hits this year for presents were as follows: Sophia is obsessed with her Rapunzel "jammies"(she hasn't taken them off for a week), her leapard "fur" coat from Nana, her Hello Kitty ear muffs, and her Doc Mc Stuffins outfit.  Preston LOVES his Spiderman game console(it's a controller with games inside it that's portable...wohoo!).  Bentley got some play food for the kitchen which he loves to play in and Santa brought the kids these 3 "big" things with very strict instructions that are to be shared: An air hockey table, a guitar, and a train tent!  We're also heading to the snow in a few weeks so the kids got a few key items needed for cold weather:)











                                                  Mousepad for Daddy for work:)

                                                           Santa brought robes!!
















     Santa writes the kids handwritten letters each year which is so amazing considering how busy he is:)














                                                  Santa ate all his cookies and milk:)

Christmas Eve

Oh how mama loves decorating the table and Christmas is definitely my FAVORITE!!  Daddy was sad to take it down this year so he left it up for another week.  He said it was his favorite one yet.  I change it slightly from year to year and surprisingly the kids don't touch it! We always host Christmas Eve at our house and both of our parents join as well as Frank, Sarah, their kiddies, and mommy's cousin Michael.  It's the Paola tradition to have and Italian Christmas Eve so our family is carrying on that tradition with the Paola family "sauce" and we made a soup from scratch and Nana provides the desserts and Nonno makes his famous baked "clams casino".  Once we're done eating and opening presents the kids sprinkle "reindeer food" on the lawn for Santa's reindeer and we put the cookies out for Santa of course and then scurry off to bed!! We are so blessed that our families can come together to celebrate!!  It was a VERY warm Christmas this year so we had a nice walk around the neighborhood and took a trip to the duckies with the kiddies before dessert:)
We got matching jammies from Nana delivered to our door  and our houskeeper Rosie got this picture...not perfect but cute enough:)  We all love our jammies sooooo much!!!


                                    Mommy was so proud of her Christmas tree cheese/grape platter:)
















 
                                                   FOOD FOR THE REINDEER!