On Christmas Eve, we started with our traditional visit from the Sanders family. They come sing to us and we give them See's candy. We grew up with the Sanders family and LOVE that we all come home for Christmas the same years! It is awesome to see what was 3 Evers kids and 6 Sanders kids now become all the original kids, plus spouses and lots of grandchildren! 
After the Sanders' visit, then we had our traditional cheese fondue for dinner. Kelly is already looking forward to this dinner two years from now... It is awesome, and I PROMISE all the alcohol in the white wine boils off! (I think)
Then the kids got to open their one present for the night... They all got super cool Christmas PJs to wear! They were pretty excited about it, and Elle performed for us a few arabesques to show off. 
So then all ready for bed, Scott, Elle and Charlotte left milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Scott thought we should leave 11 carrots, one for each reindeer. Not quite sure who the 10th and 1th reindeer are.
Then Uncle Jeff read Snowmen at Christmas to all the kids (great book!)...
And just before bedtime, Uncle Jeff knew about this cool thing on Google that tracks where Santa has been and where he is going. He and Scott checked it out. Santa was in South America when they started watching, and his last stop that we saw was Charlotte, NC. Once in bed, Charlotte was not being very quiet and Scott was getting a little anxious, knowing that he had to be asleep for Santa to come. He kept telling her, "Charlotte, Santa is already in North Carolina! We have to hurry and go to sleep!"
The kids actually fell asleep pretty quickly leaving the rest of us to wrap furiously for the next couple of hours. Then around 7am, Scott was awake, ready to check out what Santa brought! Christmas morning was a blur of bows, wrapping paper, and super cool toys. Scott was trilled about GeoTrax and other car stuff, while Elle and Charlotte were immediately occupied dressing up as Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and having tea parties:
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Well I am officially the last to get my Christmas post up. What a fun week. The kids were so much fun to watch! Next Christmas in Cali is going to be crazy crazy- I am already excited for it!
Fun to read about what your family did over the holidays! I miss you all and hope that some day, some how we are able to visit again! Love ya!
Fun times! I had no idea that you and the Sanders Family had a tradition going on-that is really neat.
When your dad ran over to get the few missing things needed for your Christmas dinner, he told us all about Scotts carrotts and the santa tracker. Too funny. He tried it out on our kids who were all still up and not showing any signs of slowing down, but no such luck. We too love the traditional Sanders Choir Concert on Christmas Eve. It was so good to see you guys.
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