a very good Christmas

I will do my best to walk you through the six hats' Christmas. The holiday officially started when school let out on Thursday the 20th. At the Christmas gift exchange in Cassy's class, she received a little porcelain tea set. On Friday the 21st she decided to host a tea party in her bedroom, Madi and Ethan were invited. They had a great time!
On Sunday the 23rd, it was time to make cookies. Boy did we make a mess! It was a lot of fun and the cookie dough was yummy. Ethan quickly discovered this.

On Christmas Eve day, we decorated our cookies. Zach enjoyed this because he got to eat his very first cookie!


Then we got a visit from the Blue Elf, who brings us blue PJs every Christmas Eve.
Sometime that evening, Ethan crashed
and the rest of us ate a nice dinner of finger foods.
When Ethan woke up we had our family Christmas Eve gift exchange.
It was a lot of fun and a great way to start Christmas. We followed Santa that night on the Santa tracker and at 9:30 pm called out to the Missile Defense Control Center where they too were tracking Santa, and found out that he was going to arrive in Alaska at around 10pm. Off to bed the kids flew to dream about sugarplums and the much anticipated packages that would surely be waiting for them in the morning. On Christmas morning, Santa had not disappointed! The stockings were full, and the tree was barely visible behind the mound of packages that enveloped it. We took it slow, and sometime after 12pm had finally opened the last package. Everyone was tired and happy and what fun we had playing with our new toys!