Christmas Eve

We started off Christmas Eve at my parents house for the traditional frosting of cookies in the morning. Sophia picked a snowflake and really only focused on that one...frosting...putting sprinkles on...eating the sprinkles...more eating sprinkles...and then she was all done. It turned out beautiful (you'll see it at the end of this post).

We spent Christmas Eve with the Vergeer family (TJ's mom side) and decided to do it at our house so the kids could run around and play. On the menu was brunch foods, good conversation, Wii playing (look even TJ's Papa gave it a try:)), and a white elephant exchange.
After the extended family left, TJ's parents, brothers, sister, and us did our Christmas. We were sure spoiled! Some of our highlights included: Sophia's metal pots/pans, play food, cute outfits; my sewing machine bag, carrier, and tools, and cute church bag; TJ's Wii stuff, and clothes. The best of all was from his brother Caleb (who plays baseball for UW). He got him a UW baseball jersey with "BROWN" and number on the back. Oh man is he going to wear that with pride!

After everyone left, we got ready for Santa to come. New snowman PJ's (thanks Gamma and Papa), check! Cookies for Santa, check! Milk for Santa, check! Carrots for the reindeer, check! I asked Sophia where she wanted to put the plate for Santa and she said by the tree (makes sense!). She was getting excited!

Last year my mom had made Sophia a Santa plate that says, "I've been good this year," so we were ready to use it. Here is her masterpiece cookie.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night (little did I know that I would be the one waking up at 3:30am so excited!!!!)