Waiting with apprehensive breath

Man, oh man, is the excitement running high around here tonight! Maggie can't wait to see what Santa brought her tomorrow morning. BUT. During dinner tonight, David sneaked out and rang the sleigh bells that my mom and dad have hanging up and stomped around upstairs for awhile and about scared Maggie to death. She thought Santa had come while she was still awake and promptly told me that she was ready to go to bed that instant. We tracked Santa on the NORAD tracker and found that he was way down in South America so we all breathed a sigh of relief. We also watched him fly over the Great Wall of China.

Here are just a few pictures of our Christmas Eve day!

Performed a little hard labor

at the sink with Grandpa

Played some tunes on the "pi-nano" with Nuria

Got some cookies ready for Santa

And left them sitting on the hearth

for him!

David tried to tell Maggie that Santa would prefer Vault over milk but she wasn't having it. Of course, that wasn't all we did today. David, Jeff (my brother), ReRe (David's mom, who is joining us this year) and I went on what's becoming our annual Christmas Eve shopping trip. We also went to church tonight and had a yummy family dinner. Maggie and Nuria are all snug in their beds and David and I have a few presents left to wrap and then we might be following them.

4 year old Christmas is super fun. Maggie really gets what's going on this year and I can't wait to open presents with her tomorrow. With that, I hope everyone has the merriest of Christmases!