December 31 - Merry Christmas

For the first time in years, JD and I were caught up on wrapping BEFORE Christmas Eve so we didn't have a late night. Julia and Luke had been conspiring on how to "catch Santa" and slept in Julia's room but they fell asleep with all the excitement. We told them they had to wait until Jillian got up on Christmas morning before we could go downstairs. As  you can imagine, that didn't go over well. 

Christmas morning, Julia and Luke came into our room around 6.30am very excited!! They had to wait until Jillian woke up at 7.30am (when I saw 'she woke up' I mean...Julia and Luke couldn't wait any longer and woke her up) to go downstairs and then it was present time!

helping Dad with dinner

After opening amazing presents from family, friends and Santa, we ate a delicious breakfast and then it was time to play. Thank you everyone for making our Christmas so special!! The kids are working on thank you cards this week and we'll have them in the mail soon. 

So for the first time ever, JD cooked a Christmas day dinner. We had prime rib, potatoes, cauliflower casserole, mint peas and apple cake. Everything was as homemade as possible and absolutely incredible. JD said he enjoyed cooking Christmas day so much, he will do this going forward instead of Christmas Eve. Happy Holidays everyone!!

Thanks everyone!