Christmas Eve

I am going backwards in time so I am going to start with our wonderful weekend. Alex had to work on Saturday but got off early enough so we had an awesome Christmas Eve dinner with friends. Before this though, we got some carolers who were our Secret Santas for the 12 days of Christmas (we had gotten gifts at our door every night for 12 nights, ranging from art gifts to homemade bread and jam but we had no idea who it could be). It was nice to see who it was. After this we went off to our friend's house. Cordelia, Jaime, and Manny had a wonderful time..roughly all the children were or around Cordelia or Manny and Jaime's age so they enjoyed themselves immensely! Dinner and dessert were very good and I have some new recipes that I need to get plus I know where to get tamales in Charlotte. After we got home we set our plate for Santa..we left him some wonderful cookies from Alex's relatives and a sticky bun brought from our Secret Santa family and a glass of milk. Then off to bed while we waited for Santa. Rock (our Christmas Elf) was going back with Santa so off Rock went too.