Bah-Bah Claus

  Merry Christmas!  The Rocc Flock is coming off of 4 days of sickness...not the best timing leading up to Christmas and we got WAY behind because of it...but the last two days have still been memorable!

 First up, a few loose ends to tie up.   I came across this fun picture of Pip and the Rocchi girls!

  We did our annual tour of Christmas lights around our house with our traditional roadies of hot chocolate!

 I believe our Christmas cards have all met their destinations so it is ok to share these....Very proud of Miss Allie on her original artwork for the front of the card..

And love the signatures on the back!

Good helpers!

 The sickness began on Wednesday so 3/4ths of the Rocc Flock got to stay home on a sick day!

Little bit of yoga does the body good!

 

Practiced our letters in pretend snow!

Little bit of coloring rounded out a good day...

Now onto Christmas Eve.  We packed A LOT into a few short hours...so here we go!

 First up, we headed to Gammy and Poppy's Friday afternoon in order to spend some time there since we wouldn't be stopping there on Christmas day like we have in the past.  Allie was still not feeling well but she hung in there!

 Cam LOVED opening up his presents and helping everyone else open up theirs as well!

Cash registers from Gammy were a big hit!

 Allie and Cameron had picked out some presents for each other that we decided to hand out during the day on Christmas Eve....

A present from Cam to Allie...

A present from Allie to Cam...

The twins had to do things in between the present giving...liking getting a haircut!

Fun fun!

 We headed over to our church to check out the animals and stay for the 4:00 service...

The twins decided they wanted to ride home in Bah-Bah's truck because "they could see more sitting up higher!"

  Once we got home, it was time to sprinkle some reindeer food in the front yard!

 Mike did a great job with the Christmas lights this year!

Annual Christmas Eve boxes....

Cam's ornament from Daddy...

Allie's ornament from Mommy...

Very glad that these Christmas runners my mom made survived the fire.

Yum yum!

 Little bit of selfie stick fun...

  And THEN.....Bah-Bah disappeared for a bit...

Mike did some last minute Christmas shopping at Allie's store...

Mike asked for a receipt for the items he purchased...Allie decided to draw a picture to serve as the receipt!

 AND THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  We got a special visitor.....

I believe he was this far in the door when Cameron said, "Bah-Bah??  What are you wearing???"

It's not Santa Claus!  It's Bah-bah Claus!!!

Very fun!

The twins were still a bit confused on where Bah-Bah got those clothes but loved that he did something special for him.

 It was then time to quickly bake some cookies for the real Santa!

Sneaking chocolate chunks!

Get 'em in the oven!

Get 'em to the fireplace!

 Traditional picture...

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Glad to have the tree topper that Mom and I bought in NYC so long ago atop our tree again this year!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!