Our Family Christmas

Dear Kate,

We have a TON of things going on this Christmas, so we had to have our family Christmas dinner a week before Christmas!  We did our annual Christmas dinner at Buca di Beppo this year.  We headed out for an early dinner and ordered lots of pasta.  This place is a family style restaurant where you order and share everything.  It was very delicious and when it came time for dessert, we did NOT hold back! We knew it was going to be big, but Sister specifically asked for ice cream, and, well, that's what she got...

If I remember correctly, it was 8 chocolate brownies with 12 scoops of ice cream and then whip cream on top, with sprinkles, too!  I think everyone in the restaurant stared at us for a solid 2 minutes wondering what in the world we were going to do with that.  You and your big sis (with a little help from Mommy) showed them EXACTLY what we do with that!  It was delicious and we made ourselves sick off of it.  A good decision, indeed!  

We rolled ourselves out of the place and headed home to open gifts from each other.  

You were thrilled to have a new pair of snow/rain boots and a cute lady bug gymnastics outfit!

As a matter of fact, we all got new snow boots!!

Sister picked out some beautiful bracelets and you wanted to wear every single one of them!

And everyone loved putting on Daddy's gift from Sister!

Mommy loves our little family Christmas dinner we have each year!  And now... let the Christmas festivities begin!!!!

PS - here's your first taste of Marshmellow cream.  You look a little rough, but that didn't keep you from asking for more!!!