Merry Christmas!!

The kids tell me 2015 was the BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!!

Santa came!!

They tell me Santa was a little confused, but they straightened it all out :)

You don't get to see me, but this is 5AM folks!  :\

Christmas pancakes!

My babies

I made a twice baked potato casserole and it was SO YUMMY!

JJ in his new hat!

Appetizers

Look at all that meat!  And this wasn't even all of it

Kids table and Aunty Kristin

Kids wanting to open gifts

Christmas chaos

Merry Christmas cake

Vegan Christmas cake

Look what Grandma found for our garbage :)

Happy Christmas Eve

 Merry Christmas Eve!  Pictures are all out of order, but I'm too tired to figure out what happened!  We had a very nice Christmas Eve ~ dinner at our favorite Brass Door, family fun photos and some gift opening.  Kids set up cookies for Santa and an elf and now we are hitting the hay and hoping he will show up!

JJ!

My new pancho!

Where did Uncle find a Quick jersey??

And where did Auntie find a kitty shirt??

And when did my baby Sparky come back to me??

Advent calendar is all complete!

Bailey tried her first oyster!

And loved it!

We all had prime rib

And Daddy wonders why he looks goofy in all the pictures we take together?

Santa cookies complete with allergy notes and coffee

Cookies for SANTA!

Been trying to get our baking out of the way.  Today we did sugar cookies!  So far I've made gluten free peanut butter chocolate chip, monster cookies and granola AND vegan chocolate chip, chocolate crinkles and sugar cookies.  I have everything to make macaroons too, but we'll see...

Vegan Chocolate chip

Gluten free monster cookies

Vegan chocolate crinkles

Vegan sugar cookies

Home Sweet Home

We had a stay at home day today.  Daddy and Gregory went grocery shopping this morning, but other than that, we stayed inside all day!  And the stormy weather we had made it the perfect day to do so!  Wish we could do this every weekend!!

Daddy turned the fire on for me and I moved my chair right in front.  So cozy!

JJ enjoyed the fire next to me

The kids made their first batch of Christmas cookies

Vegan Chocolate chip

And had their first cup of cocoa for the season

And we had chicken karaage for dinner!  (with Korean gochujang sauce!  So yummy!!)

Crazy Busy Day

Bailey and the Nutcracker

I don't do crazy busy days, but somehow today ended up being one.  Started this morning as Bailey and I got ready to go and see the Nutcracker in San Jose for Girl Scouts.  As soon as we got home from the ballet, we quickly changed and hopped back in the car to go to Gregory's first basketball game!  Ended up having dinner at 7:50pm (10 minutes before Gregory's bedtime!)  Now I am just POOPED!  Going to bed and it isn't even 9pm yet. :\

Look who came to see Gregory's first game!!

Team photos (missing one boy)

My cutie pie

Action shot

Good thing Uncle Bob was there to help me keep score!