'Twas the Night Before Christmas...

We had a beautiful Christmas Eve. It was a little bittersweet because we were without many of our friends and family this year. But, on Friday and Saturday we had family from Houston visit us and we had a really great time with them. We cooked up a turkey dinner Saturday and the turkey actually turned out! Yeah! We even bought a cool injector to keep the meat moist and tasty. Mmm...

Our friends from San Antonio also stopped by to eat with us and brought some cute gifts for the kids.

Sunday morning, Hannah and her cousin Ian made cookies for Santa. If you look closely at her mouth, you can see that they taste-tested as well :) Aren't the cookies masterpieces?

A neighbor even dropped by some hot-chocolate mix, and Jenna and Hannah tried their first sip...

Later on that night, the girls had their bath and donned their Christmas jammies. Don't they look beautiful?

Daddy loves his Christmas music, so we basically had the whole house singing Jesus' praises. The girls loved it.

And below...
Daddy and Hannah tracked Santa on the computer. She was in awe. Santa even gave her a call while daddy was upstairs. Too bad he missed it! :)

Eventually the girls went to sleep (no peeking!) and we got busy! And finally, all snug in bed by 2am...
with a tree surrounded by gifts.