Cookies for Santa...

We spent Christmas Eve getting ready for the arrival of the big guy by... what else? Making him some cookies...

First, we baked some in the Easy Bake Oven...

But those did not turn out so well, so we moved on to Santa's favorite... Peanut Butter Cookies...

Just a picture of Rae being her silly self.

The girls rolled them all into balls by themselves and then they took turns "squishing" the cookies...

Then, the cookies were all done and we were ready to set out all of Santa's treats...

Carrots for Rudolph & the gang...

(There was a big argument as to where we should put the carrots. Kairi said it would be too hard for Santa to come in, get the carrots and take them back out to Rudolph with his bag and all. So we asked her if we should put them outside and she said that was just as hard seeing as we don't have a chimeny for Santa to easily get up on the housetop. So then we asked her if we should throw the carrot on the roof. To this she said, "I think Daddy better get a ladder and put everything on the roof for Santa."

After much debate, luckily, we convinced her this was unnecessary and the cookies AND CARROTS would be fine on the kitchen counter...

Peanut Butter Cookies...

And some Egg Nog... YUMM!!!

And we mustn't forget to be grateful and leave a "thank you" note for Santa.

Kairi was so excited about the arrival of the big man that she didn't even want any nighttime stories or lullabies. She said we were taking too long getting her ready for bed...