Christmas Eve started our festivities. Unfortunately, Mommy had to work that morning and Daddy had lots of errands to run so Jilly and Natalie went to day care... we had to spend the majority of the day apart :( But we met up that afternoon, got dressed up and joined the extended Miller family at Nonna & TOF's house for the traditional lasagna and braciole dinner. It was yummy as always! The kids were entertained for hours by the old school Little People sets TOF had resurrected from the attic. We didn't have any crankiness until after 9PM, almost 2 hours past Natalie's bed time! We went home, left oranges (no cookies, see note about uncooked dough!), milk and carrots out for Santa and went straight to bed so the big guy could come.
Well, we tried to at least. Jillian was not a very sound sleeper that night. She got up every hour or so and, to make sure Santa wouldn't find her awake, Mommy and Daddy were also awake, constantly putting her back in bed. The interesting thing was she wasn't waking up excited about Santa or the presents she'd be receiving in the morning, she was just merely waking up for no real reason at all!
Daddy and the girls checking Santa's progress on NORAD's web site.
The girls modeling their new Christmas shirts, made by Mom.
Pre-dinner nail polish session.
Kisses for Natalie!
A family portrait on Christmas Eve. This is as good as any we've had in the past six months,
after all, we ARE all looking in the same direction!
Nonna and TOF
Pretty Jilly!
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