have yourself a merry little christmas...

I love my family's Christmas Eve traditions... We always go to mass and it's fun to see some of the people I went to grade school with, then we hurry to dinner with Gram and Papa - for the last four or five years we have gone to Piatti's in U. Village, and then we all go to my parents' house or my Aunt Terry's house for desert. This year we came back to my parents' house because Terry is in Spokane with Kellie, Christopher and Hayden. We enjoyed yummy Christmas cookies (about 12 kinds!) and opened pajamas and then ate a few more cookies!! This was the first year I did not write a letter to Santa before going to bed because my sister was not with me. We have a fun time crafting funny little letters that thank Santa for last year's gifts and remind him what we are hoping for this year. It just would not have been the same to write a letter without her! But I did leave him some cookies and milk :)