We opened the gifts from Aunt Leslie and the Burbanks, including the now traditional Christmas Story-related gifts...
[mac, the unofficial vacation photographer]
Christmas Day itself was pretty low-key since the California Carters were in flight most of the day. Let's be honest...Christmas festivities can't start in earnest with the nieces/grandbabies, so the grandparents, aunts and uncle spent the morning eating breakfast burritos, hitting the YMCA and then heading to Regal Cinemas to go see "Up in the Air."
In addition to the movie being quite good, we had the exhilaration of being the only 5 people in the entire theater for a good 30 minutes. Behold:
We went home for a quick bite and then headed to the airport to pick up the family. It was fun to see Maddie so excited to be on a big plane and then at Nana's house!
Before we all went to bed so that Santa could do his thing, Nana had some special treats for the girls. First, decorating their own special tree...
[bathtime for baby eva]
[reading a story about the birth of baby jesus]
[putting out cookies and milk for santa and carrots for the reindeer]
And, of course, we all had to get in our bonding time with the girls. They are both so cute and absolute treasures as nieces...
[weird stuff happens when family gets together...]
[laying out the filled up stockings — a.k.a. Santa came!]
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