Christmas Eve - Drive to Pittsburg

We got an early start the morning of Christmas Eve so that we could have plenty of fun time on Pittsburg on Christmas Eve!  Here are pictures from the car ride...mom and I were passing the time!

Love,
Kate
xoxo

Sullivan's

Mom, Dad and I had a lovely festive dinner on Christmas Eve Eve at Sullivan's Steakhouse.  We got all dressed up and went there for happy hour in the bar area and then had a great table for a fun night out!  Mom and I split amazing calamari for an appetizer (my favorite thing I ate) and I had a yummy ceasar salad for dinner (and a few bites of mom's steak)!  It was a great dinner!

Love,
Kate
xoxo

Annual Christmas light tour!!!

 Tonight we got dressed in our brand new matching family Christmas PJs, stopped at McDonald's for hot cocoa and went on our annual Christmas light drive!  This year we made a new stop, to Diana Rose Farmstead for a drive in-like lights show (I got to sit in the front seat with Dad to watch it), then we went to Christmas Place neighborhood for lots of cool lights and then made our FAVORITE stop at Pauli's Penguins Playhouse to see and walk through all the inflatable penguins and snow!

It is so much fun and I just love that we do this every year!!!  Merry Christmas!

Love,
Kate
xoxo

Family PJs!!!

Mom placed a HUGE present under the Christmas tree a few weeks ago that said "open my on Christmas Eve".  It has been killing me ever since and just about every day I ask her if I can open the present....she says no!

Today I was totally surprised when mom told me that I could open it...YIPPEE!!  It is not Christmas Eve, but I'm not complaining!  To my wonderful surprise the present was matching family Christmas PJs (something I had on my Christmas list)!  They are really awesome!  I told mom that they are the best present I have ever gotten!

Mom, Dad and I all have matching PJs and we wore them tonight on our annual Christmas /PJ/hot cocoa light tour!!  LOVE them!  I was super excited that we even got Dad to wear them...out of the house!  Now, to get him to wear them all day on Christmas...

P.S.  Did you notice each pair has our name on them??  Super Cool!
Love,
Kate
xoxo

Christmas Cookies!

Today mom and I spent lots of time making Christmas cookies and candies!  It was lots of fun!  We  pretended that we were at a bakery and I was the owner and would teach mom how to bake!  While we baked we watched a few Christmas movies!  I loved both baking and tasting all the yummy sweets!

Love,
Kate
xoxo

Crown Center: Playing

After dinner we headed over to the area at Crown Center with the Majors Christmas tree. It was a beautiful night, so we all played like crazy at the village area they had set up.  We even watched the fountains dance to the music!  It was super cool...and pretty too!

Love,
Kate
xoxo

Crown Center: Dinner

 After the Holiday Express we wen to Crown Center for dinner. We were going to go to Fritz's (the train restaurant) for dinner, but the wait was HUGE, so instead we went to a restaurant at the Sheraton hotel.  It was yummy and super quiet (we were one of the only one's there) and we had lots of fun!

Love,
Kate
xoxo