Christmas Eve

Every year we spend Christmas Eve at my parents house. My dad always plans a 4 course meal for the occasion. Over the years, we have had some pretty interesting meals: fish soup, squash soup (blah....) This year was wonderful!! Shrimp Cocktail, Salad, Prime Rib, Potatoes, veggies, and for desert... red Velvet Cheesecake!! We got to spend Christmas Eve with Aunt Nonna and Uncle Ryan. Everything about Christmas Eve was perfect. Then we headed home quick to spread out our reindeer food and set out milk and cookies for Santa!! We did learn something very interesting this year... Macy our dog likes reindeer food too! Every time we would throw a handful, she would run and start to try to eat it. We had to put her in the house fast so the reindeer would have plenty of food to re energize them for the long flight ahead of them :)

Right before bed, we checked the Santa tracker to see where Santa was. He was already in Florida so we needed to go to bed quickly. Then, the news lady gave out the five rules for staying on Santa's nice list. One of the requirements was to make sure you stay in bed. If Santa knows you try to sneak downstairs to see him, you will have to be put on the naughty list.

Well... anyone who knows my son knows that this is a problem!! He then started to panic that he might forget and go downstairs. After 10 minutes of convincing him that he would remember and stay in his bed, he finally calmed down. He made me shut his door that night to make sure he would remember that he needed to stay in his room. He was asleep within 30 minutes.

Hurry Santa!!!!