Christmas Eve

We love Christmas Eve.  We go to Grandpa and Mindy's with all the cousins and eat wonderful food, visit and open presents.  There are getting to be quite a few of us but it doesn't matter how crowded it is we just love being together.

We come home from that party and always have our own little Christmas program.  This year we talked about the gifts that the Savior brought to us and then we talked about what gifts we could give him.  We each wrote down a gift that we were going to give to the Savior this year and put it in a Christmas bag.  Next year we will open the bag on Christmas Eve and see how we have done.

We also always act out the Nativity and read the Christmas Story from the scriptures.  This year Melanie Parada, our friend from Colombia, was with us.  Also Ryan, Cait and the girls were with us.  Kalli didn't want to be Mary…she wanted to be an Angel.  So Erin was Mary and we talked Jordan into being Joseph again this year.  Caitlin decided she was going to be a lamb.   

Joseph (Jordan), Angel (Kalli) and Mary (Erin).

Caitlin sneaking in to be the lamb.

Ryan, Cait, Kalli, Jordan and Erin….it was so fun to be all together.

We opened Christmas jammies and all the little girls got "frozen" nightgowns.  Kalli and Hannah loved them.

Erin and Melanie had matching jammies.