All is calm, All is bright...

nearly everything is ready for what promises to be an exciting, crazy, wonderful, sweet, fun Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! i just wish we had a couple more weeks of anticipation because i'm not ready for it all to be over...elli and ralphy have had such fun counting down the days with their advent calendars and finding our "elf on the shelf" each morning...they've made lots of goodies to share with family and they've received letters from santa himself...and we've watched polar express about 100 times! hopefully i'll get more pictures posted soon, but here are few from the last few weeks:

the kids with their baby cousin, dante angelo