White Christmas Eve

I can't imagine anything more perfect than waking up to snow this morning! I haven't seen that much snow here in a very long time. It snowed until close to noon and the ground was covered in a beautiful blanket of snow. Ava Kate got to make her first snow angel which she didn't exactly enjoy. I think she prefers to look at it from inside, the wind was blowing pretty hard and so it was really very cold out there! Justin even made a baby snowman for her. We watched White Christmas together and drank hot chocolate while we got the house and food ready for our Christmas Eve gathering with my family that night. Ava Kate loved the dancing scenes on White Christmas, she was trying to dance right along with them.

Fortunately everyone made it over to our house in spite of the roads. We enjoyed our traditional Christmas Eve dinner which consisted of tamales, beans, rice, queso, chili, guacamole, pinwheels, sausage balls and don't forget dessert! After dinner we started opening presents. Ava Kate got a darling cape from grandmother and papa and a Mexican silver saucer from Uncle Dave that mommy loved! The boys had fun playing with their games and trucks. Our advent activity was getting our new Christmas pjs and putting out cookies and milk for Santa. Santa even left a pair of pjs for Keller and Ethan which turned out to be a good thing because they ended up staying the night with us along with Natalie and mom since the roads had gotten so bad.