Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we helped roll covatelli and then got ready to go to the children's mass at the wonderful Our Lady of Peace Church.  The kids made it through half of the mass, which is about their average time for sitting still on hard wooden benches and trying to keep quiet.  I couldn't get a good picture of the kids in the church clothes (go figure....these children can sense when I am desperate for a picture), so these crummy ones will have to do. 

 

 

 After mass and after our traditional cavatelli dinner (which was YUMMY), Pop Pop read "A Christmas Story" and we left out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

 Santa and the reindeers graciously ate the food that was left out for them, and Santa even wrote a letter of thanks to Avery.  What a nice guy.

 Putting Christmas gifts underneath the tree.