Merry Christmas!!!!

Christmas is such a blast! We love how much Jack believes in the magic of Santa and Mr. and Mrs. Elvis (our Elves on the shelf). Every morning he'd rush down to see what the elves got themselves into and he'd move his advent calendar each day without fail. He did question the size of our chimney - he said Santa was too fat to fit down it. We assured him that Santa's magic would get him in our house to leave presents. Gia (obviously) isn't quite there yet but she had a ball tearing open her gifts. 

We celebrated with the McNeece family on the Saturday before Christmas. Auntie Liz had cookies and gingerbreadmen for them to decorate! Gia LOVED playing in the playhouse and with the giant exercise ball ;)

 goofs!

 

 Nana and Jack had matching sweaters!

Molly and Jack - best buds!

 

 This is her new thing - not sure why but it's pretty funny! She walks around with a ball in her mouth and tries to give it to people, kind of like a dog. Maybe she needs to lay off the milk bones (yes, she loves dog bones!)

 Santa's little helper

 Christmas Eve we spent at home with Mama's family - Gia loves to be at the table like a big girl.

 the best shot I could get - she just doesn't like to stay still!

 

 

 

Santa Ethan!

 Such a goof - he gets that from his mama ;)

 We left Santa and the reindeer plenty of cookies and carrots!

 Santa sure was tired!

 After almost every present Jack would say "just what I always wanted!" - makes it all worth it!

 Lexi and Rocco are ready for us to go back to school and work!

 Santa was good to daddy too - more tools!

 cutie...

 Christmas morning Nana, Pops, Aunt Kristin and Uncle Joey came over to exchange gifts before we headed down to Calvert County to visit with the Schwab side of the family!

 Brody, Ryan, Jack and Renee

 Gia has been loving on babies lately, it's too cute!

  

eating dog food - she'll probably be mad when she sees this when she is 18 :)

 Jack played with almost all his toys the day after Christmas - here with his most favorite - iPod Nano and his PlayMobil

 we made Slurpees

 and built legos too!

 Rocco loves to lay under the tree....almost like he's 20 lbs instead of the 95 that he is!

Visiting with Pop Pop Smith - he always has good candy!