Excitement was high at 6am! I thought we had set a “no earlier than” time of 6:30 but they were all up and ready to go by 6am so…Santa time! Maxwell had even already showered…gotta get that hair looking good for pics of course. 😉

They were happy to see that Santa came!

There were some pretty fun surprises included!

Everyone had fun checking out all of their Santa haul…

Robert and I both managed to surprise each other…a grill and Gucci! Merry Christmas!

The kids then to open the presents from us. Boys first…

Yeeess! Tickets to see the Heat play the Lakers in Miami! Then it was Samantha’s turn…

A Taylor Swift t-shirt! Yay! but wait…an envelope?!

Tickets to see Taylor Swift in concert in Atlanta! Woohoo!!

We had some happy little elves Christmas morning. They were also happy because no one had to rush to clean up their stuff because we weren’t hosting Christmas lunch! That made me a happy elf too! We tried out new Christmas gifts…

took time checking out all of our gifts…

and enjoyed pancakes cooked by Maxwell!

A very merry Christmas morning!

After all the parties were over, it was almost time for Christmas! We had Feliz Navidad nachos on the 23rd…

and enjoyed a blazing fire when the temps dropped to the single digits!!

On Christmas Eve we had lunch at the club…

So happy we got this picture outside even though it was maybe 20 degrees! Thank goodness it was sunny!

and then went to the 5pm service at church where Maxwell acolyted.

Steaks for dinner, cookies for Santa, and then off to bed!

It’s almost Christmas!

After making our own candy house at home, we also decorated gingerbread houses up at the club. My crew was looking festive and fun!

And they did a great job on their houses…

and definitely loved hanging with their buddies.

The icing on the gingerbread house? This family photo that Diana took of us! Makes me happy!!

Merry Christmas!

The next night we got to go see Santa up at the club. Of course my crew was looking super sharp yet again!

I was pretty pleased that Samantha had found that pink velvet headband in NYC that perfectly matched the pink velvet shoes I had gotten her and that they both went great with the new dress I found. Goodness I love having a girl! We got there about 6:15 and there was no line for Santa so we hopped on up for our picture!

The kids had to endure a few more photos…

and then they were free to run off with all of their friends.

Of course, I had fun with my friends too!

A fun holiday night!

Merry merry!