Christmas Eve 2013

Christmas Eve in Maryland was a great one. We spent the first half of the day relaxing at home and playing with the kids. Penny had her first Christmas cookie courtesy of Tita Keese:

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Penny went with us to shop for dinner. She was very helpful:


After 4pm Mass at church we came home to start preparing dinner. Gabe and I were making homemade pizzas. Penny hung out with Nono as they represented the old Hood:


The cousins supervised while we worked on dinner:


Tita Val and Penny helped too:


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Penny changed into her special Christmas Eve jammies:


And then we all sat down for dinner:



Joaquin took over the photography for a bit:


And took a video of dinner (unbeknownst to us):


The boys left notes for Santa along with donuts and carrots (for the reindeer, of course).

And then it was off to bed. We were excited to see what Santa would leave us in the morning…..