Christmas Eve.
We always spend Christmas Eve and my mom and dad's.
When I was growing up...I remember Christmas Eve and my Grandma Steiner's house.
ALL the cousins would be there....
and when I say ALL the cousins, I mean it...there was probably 70 of them.
There would be no room to sit on the floor...and my Uncle Randy would usually be in the bedroom
asleep on the bed with all the coats.
anywhooo...back to NOW.
We have Prime Rib dinner
and then do a short...but hopefully getting longer as the kids get older
Nativity reading.
It usually consists of dad reading from the scriptures and the parents
taking a TON of pictures and the kids giggling at their outfits...
but hey, whatever works..right?
This year Gretchen thought it would be fun if the kids "surprised" grandma and grandpa
with a song...so they learned "Picture a Christmas"
and it was REALLY cute!
Brison even got up there and sang...usually the last word of the sentence..
but hey, he knew some of it so that's good...right?
Even on this very, VERY busy night...we had a special visitor.
It was really fun this year because it happened to be somebody who
knew the family REALLY well.
He even got a little smack on the cheek from Brian.
(no pictures folks, I was behind the video camera!)
Brooklyn and Brison were not scared at all....
All the kids were singing...well, at least those without the candy canes in their mouth!
Aunt Alli decided it would be fun for the kids to decorate sugar cookies for santa to eat that night.
I think she has decided to do this every year.
Let's just hope she can relax a little and realize that the kids are
GOING TO EAT THE FROSTING.
There's no getting around that with kids!
The honorary Christmas Eve p.j.'s!
It wouldn't be Christmas Eve without them!
1 comment:
That looks like a ton of fun! We used to the navitity scene with all of my cousins and it was always full of comedy Ü
Tell Alli ~ I have a hard time with those darn kids eating the frosting and I have two!!!
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