Ava woke up at 6:00am on Christmas morning calling out “Mommy!” I went to her room and she said, “Santa didn’t come.” I said, “How do you know?” she replied, “He didn’t eat his milk and cookies.” “Did you check?” I asked. “No.” I took her to our bedroom and she retold all of this to Daddy. Daddy hopped right out of bed and said, “Let’s go check!” (Scott is so cute on Christmas morning.. he woke up at 5am and couldn’t go back to sleep. He was so excited when Ava woke up! I on the other hand could’ve happily gone back to sleep).

Ava went to the living room with Daddy and was delighted to see the stockings full and the milk and cookies all gone.

After opening presents, Scott and Ava made fresh squeezed tangerine juice while I made German Pancakes.

We spent the whole day just relaxing and playing with new toys until it was time to go to Grandma’s house that evening.