Catching up...part 3!

               The last few days before Christmas were busy as ever...we had an Odyssey of the Mind practice with our team.      

We waited to give Dan his bday gifts when we returned from Bahamas so Taylor could participate.

And CLEARLY the Shirtless Putin on a Bear coffee mug was his favorite gift. :)

Jeffrey continued his elfy fun by staging a candy cane hunt one morning. Definitely my personal favorite!

Two days before Christmas, I had two little sisters of T's buddies over for some holiday baking...how sweet are they wearing Meem's aprons??

We had a great afternoon baking white chocolate peppermint pops, red velvet oreo truffles, and PB and Chocolate cracker cookies.

Christmas eve morning, I went to the local strawberry patch about one mile from my house and picked these amazing juicy berries- - definitely going to be another holiday tradition for me!

Christmas eve morning, we awoke to Jeffrey delivering some Elfy look-alike PJs for T wear.

Kinda thought he would wear them to BED but nope, he put them on immediately. :)

Gdad came to visit us for Christmas which made us all happy!!

Of course we had to play our usual bocce ball in the backyard.

T and his Gdad

Check out our gorgeous colorful bogainvilla!

That night, we played a fun saran wrap game which is gonne be yet another christmas eve tradition.

Wearing oven mitts, you have a limited amount of time to unwrap a huge ball of gifts wrapped in Saran Wrap.

And you can keep anything you can sucessfully get from the ball!

Dan must have won a costume mustache

Gdad was really the best at it and had a good haul. Wax lips - what says Christmas more than that, I MUST-ACHE you!! :)