Harris Family Christmas Festivites...and ANOTHER visit from Santa!

For those of you that know me, you know that I simply love everything about Christmas....making cookies, decorating, the music, etc., etc. It is BY FAR my most FAVORITE time of the year!!! This year is EVEN more special since I received the MOST AMAZING early Christmas present on December 3-- a new little miracle that we named Michael Lawrence. Life just does not get any better.....I would love to freeze time, but since I know I can't, I am just enjoying this very special Christmas season with my 3 boys.....Jay, Little Man, and the Littlest Man! I love, LOVE my boys...they are all the best Christmas presents a girl can ever receive!!

Tonight we celebrated Christmas with the Harris side of the family. We enjoyed some amazing food-- a huge antipasti platter (courtesy of Aunt Kick Kick and Uncle Bibby!) artichoke dip, chili dip, 2 HUGE shrimp cocktail platters that Granny completely forgot to serve, but still gets kudos for attempting (HA!), chicken marsala, and eggplant parmesan. And what Christmas dinner is complete without a HUGE display of Christmas cookies for dessert!?! Jack especially loved the pizzelles, caramel pecan cookies, and peanut butter Hershey kiss cookies (without the Hershey kisses!) that he helped Mommy to make for the party! Yummy!!!!

For the second year in a row, we had another appearance from Santa to Granny and Grandpa's house during the party!!!!! Since Papa had a fire roaring, Santa had to enter the house through the front door instead of the chimney! He simply rang the door bell and Jack was amazed to see him! He brought so many presents and Jack (and Mikey!!!) were so fortunate to sit on Santa's lap in the comfort of Granny and Grandpa's house. I must have 2 VERY lucky and nice boys for Santa to come and visit them so close to Christmas when he is especially busy for his big night on Christmas Eve!!!

Anyhow, we had a great time celebrating Christmas a week early with the Harris's!!! There is nothing better than family, Christmas, and the miracle of a newborn that we were able to celebrate with this year!! We can't wait to do it all over again with the Heidemann's next week!

Here are some shots of our Christmas celebration! You can see that just one of Jack's many gifts was a new hat that he loved...so much in fact that he would not take it off all night!!!