If you've ever wondered, yes, Santa Claus DOES come visit the children even when they live in a foreign country!
We closely monitored the man in the red suit's progress on the television via NORAD's Santa Tracker. We even watched him come into eastern Europe! (This however, was earlier in the day!)
We went to church at Tower Barracks, only to find that it was actually at Rose Barracks. Totally my fault for not reading it close enough. So we sped down to Rose Barracks and managed to catch mass. Afterward, we came home and continued our tradition of throwing reindeer dust on the lawn so that it would sparkle in the moonlight and Santa would be able to find us.
This year, Santa was very lucky. He got homemade cookies with frosting and the reindeer got carrots. Unfortunately, I could not find Andes mint chocolates for use in my favorite Christmas cookie recipe. After Eights weren't melting properly, so we bought a can of peppermint frosting instead.
Sometimes they like each other. Or they pretend to so Santa will bring them presents.
Next, Daddy always reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. It was fun to see Grant get excited about it this year.
Blurry because they were moving so fast yelling, "HE CAME! SANTA WAS HERE!" As you can see, Natalie is airborne!
Grant hasn't even opened anything yet and he still gives this Christmas a big thumbs up!
Every year, Grant gets a Hess truck from Pop Pop. It's always one of his favorite gifts!
Warm Gluwhein and sour cream coffee cake. Yum.
The kids got little wooden put-together airplanes in their stockings, so we took them outside for a contest to see how far we could throw them.
Probably the best gift ever. A new digital camera to chronical our travel adventures in Europe. I took this picture of the Christmas Day sunset with my new camera. Tomorrow, it's off to Rome!
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