The next morning, everyone is buddled up and ready to go tree hunting.
"We need to win this year." Ashely says to Santana who is holding Ariel.
"Your sister hasn't lost in years. What makes you think this year will be different?" Santana asks.
"Maybe Ariel will have inherited her talent." Ashely hopefully says.
"She's more like me." Santana points out.
"We're on Brittany's team this year." Gloria says for herself and her husband.
"Ashely, Santana, Ariel, Pierce and myself will be the other team." Whitney says.
"Come on dad, we have to win this year." Ashely says.
"Don't worry Gloria, no one has beaten me yet." Brittany says as they start off on their search.
"Oh, I'm not worried. I know that you've never been beaten." Gloria says.
"I still don't get how you do it." Mario says following his wife and daughter-in-law.
"I don't really know either. I've always just been able to smell a great tree." Brittany says shrugging.
Sniffing the air, she leads them off to the right following the scent of fresh pine that's slightly crisper than normal.
Across the tree farm, Pierce and Ashely are leading trying to find a tree to beat Brittany.
"Are you sure she's not able to smell a good tree?" Ashely asks Santana.
"Nope, she's just looking around and grabbing at branches that come close." Santana says.
"Dad, what about you?" Ashely asks.
"Honey, your sister's going to win." Whitney says. "Just pick a tree you like."
"Hold on, I think I can smell a great tree." Pierce says.
"Yes," Ashely says fist pumping.
An hour later, both teams are back with their trees.
"You're going down." Ashely says.
"You say that every year." Brittany says smirking.
Brittany's tree is unanimously decided as the better one. Even Ashely has to agree.
"We'll get her next year," Pierce says hugging Ashely.
Ariel reaches out for Brittany who takes her from Santana.
"I will never understand how you do that." Santana says shaking her head.
"No one does." Brittany says giving her a peck on the lips.
"This is going to be a great Christmas." Santana says leaning into her wife.
"It sure is."
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Christmas Eve morning, Santana is up before Brittany and Ariel, excited for her mami's empanadillas.
"Look who's up early." Gloria says to Whitney, who is helping make breakfast.
"The only time I've seen her willing up early." Whitney says.
"I'm just excited for breakfast." Santana says.
"Of course, you are." Gloria says. "Since you're up, you can help."
"Mami," Santana whines.
"Or you could have cereal instead." Gloria threatens.
"Fine," Santana grumbles going over to help.
Ariel wakes Brittany up an hour later, making whimpering noises.
"Are you ready to get up honey." Brittany says picking her up. "Let's go see where your mami got to."
Brittany makes her way, downstairs and into the kitchen. She smiles as she sees their moms and Santana, cooking.
"Is breakfast almost done?" Brittany asks.
"A few more minutes, go wait with your father and Mario." Whitney says.
"She doesn't have to help." Santana says pouting.
"Britt's holding our granddaughter." Gloria says shaking her head at her daughter.
"Give me here." Pierce says taking Ariel from his daughter.
"I think the food is ready." Mario says smelling the air.
Just then Gloria walks out, "empanadillas are ready."
They all head to the dinning room, putting Ariel in her high chair. Ashely comes down right as Gloria is plating the food.
"You're more and more like my mija, every day." Gloria says to Ashely.
Ashely smiles at this. Pierce and Mario dig in, shoveling food in their mouth almost as fast as Santana who is almost through her first serving. Everyone else is eating normally.
"This is better than last years." Ashely says.
"Thank you, I added a new spice this year." Gloria says.
"It's really good." Pierce says between bites.
After they finish eating, everyone mulls over to the living room to watch 'It's A Wonderful Life.' Pierce is bouncing up and down excited to see the movie again. This is his favorite part of Christmas.
"I'll never understand why your dad gets so excited to watch this movie." Santana whispers to her wife.
"It's his favorite." Brittany says shrugging.
"Okay, I've got the popcorn." Pierce says.
"Here's eggnog." Whitney says.
Everyone settles in the living room with Whitney and Gloria having taken Ariel. Pierce starts the movie. Ashely is sitting next to her dad as she loves the movie almost as much as he does. Mario is catching up on some emails on his phone. Brittany and Santana are snuggled together.
Once the movie finishes, Pierce gets up and runs to the bathroom.
"I've got to go!" Pierce shouts.
"There goes your dad." Whitney says shaking her head. "Ashely go get the games."
"I call Santana!" Ashely shouts.
"Nope, she's my partner!" Brittany shouts.
"You can be my partner, Ashely." Gloria says.
"Cool," Ashley says.
"I'll take Ariel." Mario says taking Ariel from his wife.
"I get her next round." Whitney says.
"Let's start off with a card game." Ashely says coming back in with a few different games.
"We partnered?" Pierce asks his wife coming back in.
"Yes, sit down." Whitney orders.
The last game of the night is charades. Since Santana and Brittany are so good, it's them against the rest of the house. Whitney and Gloria have rejoined after preparing dinner.
"Come on, we have to win this year." Ashely says to both sets of parents.
"You're going down." Santana says.
What isn't surprising is how well the pair does. Santana is guessing and Brittany is acting out the clues. They have five minutes to do as many clues as possible. This year they are using a brand new deck of clues, Ashely really wants to beat them. Brittany waves her arms in the air.
"Air dancer," Santana says and Brittany moves on to the next clue.
She holds up three fingers before making a triangle with her arms. Then she motions to Santana.
"Christmas With You." Santana says.
Ashely gasps, staring at the pair. Their parents are impressed, but not surprised, this is how it always goes. Brittany acts out twenty-two other clues before they are nearly out of time. Brittany reads the likely last one they'll get to before pointing to herself and motioning outward as her hands go down.
"Blue dress," Santana says just as the time runs out.
"Twenty-five beats your record of twenty-four from you senior year." Whitney says impressed. "I never thought you'd beat that."
"How did you get blue dress out of what my sister did?" Ashely asks frowning.
"She pointed to herself and motioned dress which obviously meant her favorite dress which is blue." Santana says.
"I don't get it." Ashely says.
"Are you going to go or do you admit defeat." Brittany asks.
"Never," Ashely says turning to the parents. "Let's do this."
They decided to have Whitney give the clues as she's pretty good at it. They do decent getting eleven in five minutes.
"How could you all not get the last one?" Santana asks.
"It was obviously milk." Brittany says.
"That's right honey," Whitney says. "Next year, I'm on your twos team."
They all stuff themselves with dinner before watching a few more Christmas movies and then head up to bed. Brittany gently places Ariel in her crib.
"I have a gift for you that we should open alone." Santana says.
"I have one for you too." Brittany says smiling. "Great minds think alike."
"That and we both get each other inappropriate gifts for our family to see." Santana says smirking.
"I like that, our family." Brittany sighs.
"It is nice that our parents get along so well and have become friends." Santana says.
They give each other their gifts. Brittany tears it open quickly while Santana slowly opens it.
"San," Brittany chuckles pulling out a dildo.
"I think I believe your sister now. We really do share a brain." Santana says also pulling out a dildo.
Santana's is sleek and black while Brittany's is rainbow colored. Santana stashes them away, before they get in bed. She's the big spoon, wrapping her arms tightly around Brittany.
"Night Sanny," Brittany whispers.
"Night Britt," Santana whispers back.
It surprises Santana how quickly Brittany falls asleep since she's normally too excited to fall asleep. Though it does make it easier for her to fall asleep.
The next morning, they are woken up by someone jumping on the bed.
"Ashely," Brittany says.
Before she can say anything else, Ariel starts crying.
"I'll grab her," Santana says getting up.
"Sorry," Ashely says blushing.
"Come one, let's go down and grab San some coffee so we can open presents." Brittany says wrapping her arm around her sister.
"Mom! Dad!" Ashely shouts.
Gloria, Mario, Pierce and Whitney are all in the kitchen nursing cups of coffee.
"I see she woke you up too." Whitney says.
"She came over to get us." Gloria says laughing.
"Are we going to open up presents now or what?" Santana says coming down.
"Presents!" both Brittany and Ashely shout.