Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ~

Christmas Eve Day started with finding Fred Charles hanging out with Santa on top of our Christmas tree --- he also left the girls Magic Reindeer Dust to sprinkle around our backyard so the reindeer would know to come to our house that night.  It was a very good (and fun) start of our day.

The girls also received emails from Santa himself, from his workshop at the North Pole.  It was so sweet watching Ella's excitement ....

..... and it was hilarious watching Zoe -- she was very excited but the possibility of getting the red light from the elves and being on the 'naughty list', kept her on edge ....

.... until she saw the green light and knew for sure she made the 'nice list' : )

We also baked cookies for Santa (oatmeal chocolate chip), and the girls were big helpers ....

After dinner we sprinkled the reindeer dust around the outside of our house ....

.... and then it was time to open gifts ....  

Two happy girls .....

Christmas Morning Zoe and Ella woke up to a Lite Brite messages from Fred Charles ....

....  and lots of gifts from Santa, Santa Mouse and even Rudolph (he made sure they got new undies, which they thought was so funny) .....

After a fun morning of opening presents and playing with gifts we headed to my parent's house for the day, where we kept so busy I didn't even take one picture : )  A very nice holiday indeed!!