From Christmas to New Years

Our Christmas was filled with family, food, and fun!  We started with our annual candlelight Christmas Eve dinner at my parent's home.  Olivia and Ethan enjoyed their sparkling grape juice toasts throughout the dinner.

Dessert was a Bouche de Noel chocolate passion fruit cake.

And our "second dessert" was s'mores with homemade marshmallows.

Olivia and Ethan ready for Santa (yes, both still believe!).  They left letters to Santa, cookies, milk, carrots, and a banana (since they read that real reindeers like bananas).

Christmas morning - Santa wrote back!

The traditional before and after present pictures.  Our kids are not at all spoiled :)  Olivia did not really have a "big" gift this year - just many smaller items like Legos, Monster High dolls, lotions, art supplies, etc.  Ethan had two big gift items this year - Disney Infinity 2.0 and Skylanders Trap Team, along with legos, Nerf guns, Big Hero 6 items, and more.

Olivia and Ethan both love their Christmas suckers.

Ethan and Daisy on a Christmas hike after lunch.

The Saturday after Christmas is our Stamps Family Christmas at Dewey's Pizza.

Olivia showing off her new sock monkey boots from Grammy and Grandpa Brett.

Ethan loving Uncle Brennan's pinball machine.

After Christmas we also attended a Blues hockey game with my family.  The kids love to watch the fast action!

Joe had to work on both New Years Eve and Day, so we spent New Years Eve with a "quiet" family dinner of cheese and chocolate fondue.  The kids then stayed up to watch the ball drop in NYC.

Have a happy 2015 from the Baima family!