Attached are some photos from our Christmas 2012 holiday season....
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Our beloved neighbor, Mr. Rego, reading The Elf on the Shelf book to Charlie and Caroline
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| Charlie and Caroline waiting for Jack to get off the bus... |
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| Charlie in his school 'performance'....so cute! |
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| Charlie making crafts at his classroom holiday party... |
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| Fun Christmas gifts from our neighbors, The Regos... |
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| The kids playing a game from our babysitter Mollie, Disney-themed characters guessing game... |
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| Lighting our luminaries for the annual "Light Up River" event, Dec 23, 2012 |
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| Setting out the luminaries along the sidewalk in front of our house... |
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| Christmas Eve on our own in Cleveland this year! We made the decadent bowtie cream pasta with gorgonzola, walnuts, and grapes (a la RoseAngeli's in Chicago) |
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| Charlie made 'reindeer food' during his classroom holiday party... |
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| Putting out the reindeer food on our porch on Christmas Even |
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| So excited Christmas Morning! |
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| Opening their stockings... |
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| Yummy, over-the-top Monkey Bread for Christmas morning |
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| Egg casserole for Christmas morning |
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| The most conservative Little Mermaid costume Santa could find on Ebay |
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| Although we did NOT have a white Christmas, we DID have a white day-after Christmas...blizzard on December 26th! |
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| Sledding, snow angels, and snowball fights at Rocky River park... |
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| Panera stop en route to visit Mema and Bepa Patterson in Michigan... |
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| Jack lining up his 'Quirkle' game, by color, of course... |