the eve

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens



He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith



The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis


(Or not so happy....here's Diego screaming at his brother!)



One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney



Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken


We are so thankful to Great-Uncle David for joining us on Christmas Eve. My word for the new year is HOPSITALITY, and I'm so glad to have gotten the jump start at Christmas. AND we did the unheard of...which the kids will never forget...he took them Christmas shopping at Target on the 'eve...they got to pick and he paid.

Plus the tradition still stands....pjs for all! Isabela got ones to match her new glasses.


Joaquin got ones to match his extreme sports love.


And Diego got Scooby-Dooby-Doo!


It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Charles Dickens