Santa came & delivered

Better late than never - christmas update! Gavin & I made good on our promise to Santa and made him the Ritz peanut butter cookies (highly recommend the recipe - super easy and way delish) and as well as whipped up a batch of reindeer food (your welcome Rudolph). We then jetted down 167 to spend a wonderful Christmas eve at the Rosellini side of the family in Orting - and Santa really did make an appearance, but our boy wasn't too thrilled (wouldn't take a pic with him and this mama wasn't about to force it this year.)

Making the reindeer food - yum yum!

Gavin sitting with his cousin Ali as he was weary of the big man in the red suit.

Enjoyed a quiet Christmas morning with just the three of us and it was lovely - both Geno and I realize this is probaby the last year of a quiet Christmas morning as next year Gavin will definitely get the concept. This year he was taking his own sweet time opening and "ooohing & awing" over each gift - I'm sure it won't go like that next year! We have the whole year to prepare for the tazmanian devil that he will be.

Santa made it -thanks to the path of reindeer food. (in case you're wondering....house project #1 for spring is to re-stain our deck. I hope your reading this babe. :))

He was here!

O' Christmas tree, O' Christmas tree - naked with no more presents under the tree. My first noble (your welcome honey). I'm partial to Douglas fir's myself, but marriage is about compromise...

We headed down to the Clarks (not the bar - Lou) mid morning and enjoyed being with the Branham side of the family and learning that Gavin will have a new little cousin next year at Christmas to pal around with (ok, not really pal around but will have a little one closer to his age). Congrats to the Kings and their new bundle of boy cooking in the oven! We can't wait to meet the new King!Just the three of us (nice scab on Gavin's nose - huh? Courtesty of mean folding chair at Papa Rosellini's)

PS. For the record we are 21 days post Christmas and this mama is still forced to sing the following songs in this order during our nighttime routine. 1. Santa Claus is coming to town 2. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer & 3. Twinkle Twinkle. Looking forward to repeating this holiday themed songs every night for the next 344 days until x-mas 2012. This boy must like Santa next year! :)