Christmas evening at Aunt Barbie and Uncle Dave's

The girls on Christmas Eve

Andrew on Christmas Eve

More Christmas Eve

Right after Santa's visit...

no milk left, and just remnants of the carrots and cookies...What's this?!

Yes, Santa did bring the girls the pink bikes they'd been asking for for a month!Santa brought stocking stuffers too.

Here's Andrew's stuffed with little organic toys (a lion and an eggplant)...The kids all got ornaments from Grandma B.

(Gianna LOVES snowglobes and went bonkers over them!)Here is Isabella's ornament from Aunt Jane...And Gianna's...Music was a big part of the Christmas season this year. Here is Gianna admiring one of her Christmas "suitcases" (cd case)...On Christmas Eve we let the girls open one gift from Uncle Matt and Aunt Jillian (and Anthony and Olivia) - a Yo Gabba dance mat! It was quite a hit... and continues to be... The girls in new sweaters from Grandma B...

Visit with Santa

We took the girls to visit Santa this morning. They were a little shy, but not as shy as I expected. They managed to tell him what they want (a pink bike)!

We took Andrew too. Though he wasn't shy, he wasn't that thrilled either! :)

When the cat's away...

the little girls will get into cookies!

I just went to the bedrooms to put away a load of laundry when I noticed the girls were a little too quiet, this is why...

Our friend Diane, who visited last weekend, had baked a giant cookie for Mike. Needless to say he never got any of it.

Animal Shelter Drive

Remember our animal shelter "competition"?

Well, this is what our side of the street ended up with:

Not too shabby!

And here is the van, full, ready to go to the shelter this afternoon:

Technically, I think the other side of the street won, but as my sister Bev said, the animals are the real winners! YEAH!!!