Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Christmas Eve 2013






We had Christmas Eve at Don and Jill's again this year.  We got together early in the day so people could get home before it got too late.  Dennis and Darin had to work so they didn't make it this year.  We did the traditional Christmas story with Grandpa reading from the Bible and the kids being the different characters in the story.  Alexis and Cassidy even dressed as angels (check out the pose:).  The kids always enjoy the "pass along" game that Anita started years ago.  We buy dollar gifts and wrap each one 4 to 7 times (more or less) and then play Christmas music while the kids pass them around and when the music stops they all tear off one layer until they are left with a gift.  If a boy gets a girl present he can swap it with a girl and vice versa.  Jill made a wonderful lunch of Café Rio burritos with rice and beans etc.  She and Anita tried to help with Eli who was a very fussy boy.  Grandma made all the little girls nightgowns and the big girls aprons.  The boys got sweatshirts, either BYU blue or Utah red:) Actually, I think Nick was the only one with red.  It was a fun day, we only wish Dennis and Darin could have been there to celebrate with us!
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2 comments:

Daniels Six said...

Fun! You are spoiled with so much family around. Eli didn't look like he was loving it so much. That little stink. Ethan looks so old and looks like he could be Eli's dad not brother!

January 27, 2014 at 2:36 PM
Bozie said...

so true!! I would die without family around me;) eli was a little stink that day (he had just started the meds that ricker called for him and they hadn't kicked in yet;) and definitely, ethan looks older than he is! ricker said, "Ethan, you look like a grown man" when he saw him a couple weeks ago.

January 28, 2014 at 8:36 AM

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