{Houston Trip Part VI - Christmas Eve & Day}

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at my family's house.

On Christmas Eve we read about the birth of our Savior in Luke chapter 2 and then "Twas the Night Before Christmas".

Mimi made all of us Christmas pillowcases! They were so fun!

 Here are the babies with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. Evette was so excited to sleep with her new pillow case, with her yellow blanket over it, of course. She also hijacked Miriam's pillowcase since she doesn't sleep with a pillow yet.

Christmas time!

Santa came! The holidays are so magical with little kids!!!

The rainboots! All she wanted was rainboots and a watch! 

Christmas is exhausting - this one took a nap halfway through presents.

Dan got Rachel this epic beard hat to keep her face warm since she lives in the tundra Idaho.

I think I could totally pull this look off.

And cinnamon rolls for breakfast! 

And candycanes, of course!

 Christmas dinner! Julia Child's beef bourguignon!

The McQuays were over for Christmas dinner! I'm a lucky girl that my inlaws and my family are such good friends!

All the hijos.

After dinner we had a little show. Evette sang us Jingle Bells

And Rachel and Megan put on a dance for us for old times' sake - thanks y'all for the happy memories.

And a beautiful gingerbread cake for dessert!

It was a wonderful second Christmas.

*sorry for some of the blurry pictures - still getting used to my new camera lens!*