Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01452

For Christmas Eve we continued to do some baking and preparing for Christmas day. We hung out at the house for the day and in the later afternoon we started watching Christmas specials and enjoying the Mikey Mouse shaped cookies that I picked up when we were at Disney Springs. We may have run to the store again, too.

Andy is having fun here and enjoying hanging out on the front porch. This was his get off my lawn pose.

Later in the evening we all got into our family pajamas and took photos by the tree. We watched A Christmas Story, A Charlie Brown Christmas and I think the Elf on the Shelf Christmas movie, too. We may have watched Home Alone during the day as well.

Before Bed Allison wrote out the yearly letter from Fitzy to the kids. We put out some cookies for Santa and went to bed.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01451

On our first full day at Mimi and Dano’s we did a few things. Mimi, Allison and I went to the store to buy food for Christmas. Dano took the kids on a golf cart adventure and both kids got to drive the golf cart in a big parking lot. Eva enjoyed it, Andy was a bit hesitant about it. Driving a golf cart certainly takes some getting used to.

Fitzy not only made the trip to Disney but he also arrived at Mimi and Dano’s to the delight of Andy. Andy is still into this Elf on the Shelf he was so happy that Fitzy came along with us.

We went to one of the Villages main squares to do some shopping but also to visit Allison’s old boss from American Eagle. She works in a quirky little store in one of the villages. I forget which one we were at, however. I got some new shoes and We also got some ice cream despite there being cooler temperatures than usual in Florida. We also stopped by a Starbucks and Andy got a reindeer cake pop.

We got back to the house and Allison, Andy and Mimi did a lot of baking. Eva helped out as well but mostly she was setting up her room. She’s staying in the laundry room for the trip. she has a nice air mattress and a very comfy blanket to keep her warm and comfortable.

I brought along Andy’s Ninjabread men baking kit. He and Eva did the decorating on these guys.

Tonight we watched Christmas vacation. I think I connected Dano’s tv to all our streaming services so that we could make sure not to miss any of our favorite Christmas movies.