Christmas Eve in pictures.....

....I mean because holy moly it was so long ago anyway!!  I will let the pictures say what we did!!

 ......followed by "Twas the night before.......and to all a good night!"

Love this store.....

......and all the fun soaps that they have for holidays!  I think this is the first year I have seen St Patrick's Day soap but I could not pass it up. :)  I think they now have one for most every holiday.

And....speaking of St Patrick's Day, today while Kaylee was out with Auntie and Brandon, Alexa and I made some green cookies...mint chocolate chip!  And to make them so I can eat them I used my lovely dairy/soy free butter and left over dairy/soy free chocolate chunks from fondue at Valentines Day.  I just had to find a way to use them up!

The girls love "The Night Before" books that we get for all the holidays.  The one for St Patrick's Day has the kids in the book making traps to try and catch a leprechaun.  Tonight Kaylee and Lex wanted to get a jump start on making traps.  Here Kaylee is working on some Shamrocks.  They are just too cute!

More Christmas Fun!

Still love them in the candy cane skirts!  Kaylee holding one of the MANY snowflakes that were made this year.  They filled up our sliding glass door!  I wish I would have gotten a picture.  

yearly gingerbread house making with Memaw and Auntie

I know I have talked about how crazy the month of December was.  Some traditions I was not going to let go no matter what.....even if that meant it was just me and Kaylee making the Christmas cookies at 11pm....seriously.  The girls look forward every year to decorating cookies and leaving them out for Santa that I was determined to still have them this year.  Kaylee thought it was great that she got to stay up late and do this. ;)