We made our way to California this year to celebrate Christmas, and it was by far our favorite. Mostly, because our kids were at the perfect age. Kaden was so excited for Santa to come. He put out a plate of cookies, a mug of egg nog and carrots for the reindeer.
After the kids were in bed, Brandaan and I put together Kaden's new train set. It was a lot bigger of a job than we thought. Brandaan even had to swallow his pride and use the directions! Reese's four-wheeler was a lot easier.
Brandaan's mom had a stencil of Santa's footprints. Brandaan used baby powder and the stencil to make footprints coming from the fireplace. It really looked just like footprints coming in from the snow. Of course the footprints were leading in the wrong direction. Even though we made a rookie mistake, Kaden didn't catch on.
Sheryl had all kinds of Christmas goodies for us to snack on while we opened our presents. We also had the traditional DeGroot Strata. It was so yummy, we all had seconds.
We all were more than pleased with our presents. Happy smiles were all around this Christmas.
