Santa!!!!!!!!!

We've had a great last few days, preparing for Santa's arrival, celebrating the birth of Jesus and spending lots of family time together.
Friday late afternoon we headed to mass at 3, it was a great service and we sat right near the choir and instruments which Stella really enjoyed.
Here are Stella and Porter after mass, dressed in their Christmas duds, in front of our Christmas tree. Christmas Eve we stayed in and I fixed a bunch of appetizers. Everyone got to choose one favorite thing they wanted. Porter choose "green punch", he had this at his school Christmas program and has been talking about it EVERYDAY since then! I emailed his teacher and got the recipe, he was so excited!! Here they are cheers-ing with their green punch, in fancy glasses. (For those of you wondering what Stella choose for her special treat on Christmas Eve, it was Auntie Ann's pretzel sticks!!! Of course!! She's obsessed. I have a copycat recipe of them and she gobbled them right up!)

After Santa arrived on Christmas Eve.

Christmas morning, Stella digging into her stocking. She was up at 3:30AM and asked if Santa had been here yet, I told her no, she went right back to sleep! :) When she came down stairs on Christmas morning (at a much more respectful time of 7AM) she yelled out "HE CAME!!!!!!". Porter immediately wanted to know if Santa had eaten his cookies (Stella left him pretzel sticks!) and if Santa had filled his stocking, so Porter headed down to the stockings first thing!

Checking things out.....

Dancing around after opening her baby doll.

Porter with his submarine.

The after-math!

Porter got foam Batman "shaving cream" and "razor" in his stocking, he was most excited to play with it in the bath!

Stella got princess Tiana body wash, shampoo and body lotion, with a special bath loofah and tiara!