Merry, merry Christmas Eve!

Our morning started with a paint class at Whimsy while B was home watching the Bronco game. This was our first adventure at canvas painting all together. I’ve been, the girls have been, but we’ve never been the three of us together. I’m not holding my breath that we’ll ever get a family day together here. I think painting pottery is more our style as a family (luckily!).

We painted fun snowmen

Back at home we opened family gifts. This may have been the highlight of the day for these little ladies. They only asked about 9 million times..

I love watching them exchange gifts with each other. They pick the gifts out themselves and they know each other so well. 

Gwyneth may be more excited about the giving of the gifts than the receiving which makes my heart happy. 

I think she likes it! 

Christmas for the win!

Each year they receive new pajamas from us

They received sweet stuffies and Barnes and Noble gift cards from their Aunt Chriss. 

And then they tried on those goofy pajamas and had us rolling with laughter. 

We grabbed dinner at Stout Street Social. We enjoyed a few sushi rolls and Annabelle had a great bowl of Clam Chowder. (I’d recommend the California roll and a Manhattan- yum!). 

Afterwards we went to see Waitress at the Buell Theater. I was a little conflicted for this because it wasn’t rated a family show. It had some language and some adult content (marriage, adultery, bad husbands…). It was wonderfully funny and entertaining and I think the girls enjoyed it. B and I loved it! 

We arrived home late that night with only enough time to set out milk and cookies for Santa, throw on pjs and climb in bed. The girls say they like it best like that so they don’t have as much time to sit around waiting for Santa’s arrival. 

Happy Christmas Eve!