Christmas Eve!

It's Christmas Eve!!  Today we just had Sacrament meeting, but we all got dressed up and the girls got to wear their new Christmas dresses!

We are a beautiful family, if I do say so myself!

This afternoon was preparations for Christmas Eve dinner, to be had with Jon's family.  And of course selfie shenanigans

Another important item of business today was the making of cookies for Santa!  The girls love making sugar cookies, with all that cookie cutter work and decorating!

Santa's plate is ready to set out at the appropriate time.

That is, if it doesn't get eaten by Mac first!

Jon's family joined us this evening for dinner and Christmas Eve festivities, and it was wonderful to have them here.

Dinner was fantastic, and the table looked very nice.  I went with a rustic theme, and got to use my Christmas dishes and lots of cranberries!

I made these cute little cranberry wreath place card holders and hand lettered the names.

I think they turned out really well.

Here are all of us

The girls got to open their Christmas Eve gift from Snowbell, as always, cute jammies for the night.

Then it was crème brulee time!  Jon loves his blowtorch and it made them perfect!

After eating, we headed to the living room, where the girls gave Grandpa (and Grandma!) G their gift, a picture calendar!!

They carefully set out the cookies for Santa with a glass of milk.

Arranging them just so.

Mimi's little snowman just kills me.

And then after reading the Christmas story in Luke, bedtime!  Finally!  Then the work began for Santa, Jon, and I.  The final set up was CRAZY!!  The girls will be so excited to wake up to this in the morning!