Christmas Eve

Daniel's family tradition is to spend Christmas Eve with his mom's side of the family down in Orlando.  It's a crowd squeezed into a small house, but it's my idea of how to do a holiday -- lots of family and lots of food.  Joshua enjoyed Great Tata's house and we found out that 'Tata' isn't just his name for my mom, it's him actually attempting to say 'Grandma'...wonder how long it will last and whether Tata is here to stay!  Save the tatas!  We'll see.

Anyway, we enjoyed seeing lots of family that we don't see any other time of the year and introducing them to Brielle Belle for the first time.  (Not that these guys above were new, they're two of her faves.  Totally a daddy's girl and loves Uncle David too.)   

Brielle became fascinated with hats right before Christmas and spent most of the day playing with hers and anyone else who was wearing one.  (Right now, literally everything becomes a hat!  Tonight it was her tortilla chip at dinner, yesterday it was a rock in the backyard...pretty funny girl.)

Sassy's red hat and Brielle's makeshift one made out of her bloomers!

COOKIE!

PRESENTS!