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Twas the Night Before Christmas...

Christmas Eve started our family celebration of Jesus' Birthday!  It began with finishing up & wrapping some homemade gifts and we couldn't forget to make Santa some cookies!  Hailey also reminded me that we needed to leave carrot sticks & apples for the reindeer so they will have tons of energy to fly...



The party started at Mary(my sister in law) & Paul's house...

every year Santa sends Hailey a message via http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/!  This is always so exciting & calls for a family gathering to see if she's been a good girl this year...of course she has.  He even commented on events this year, like her 1 "real" beach vacation and her 1st dance recital...that was really cool!


Then it was time to chow down on ham biscuits, mac n' cheese, veggie pizza, sausage balls, stuffed celery...you name it, it was there...and good!  The girls even brought over some of there cookies for dessert, but Lindsey found Nani's snickerdoodle cookies to be even better(and softer).





Then it was time to open presents...Oh, the clothes, barbies, toys, even Hailey wrapped up some of her belongings and attempted to give them away(a hairbow to go in Mary's hair) etc...BUT, the biggest surprise was for me?  Everyone told me to wait, while Mary ran to get her camera...Chris and I had no idea what was in the box...and to be honest, it still didn't hit me right away when I opened it either.  YAY!!  It was a bridesmaid dress!  I'm going to be in her wedding!  Very cool!














Then, it was time to go home & track Santa via http://www.noradsanta.org/ ...he was headed to the U.S.!!  Time for bed...


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