Christmas Eve!

Christmas Eve was a lot of fun this year. We have always had a tradition of going to my Grandma Janes house. Last year we had her funeral on Christmas Eve instead. So this year was a little different but was a lot of fun! We started off at the Olsons and had a wonderful Prime Rib dinner. Then the kids did a little nativity and we read the Christmas Story. We also decorated gingerbread house cookies. We had a great time. Then we headed to the Grandma and Grandpa Strongs house where we enjoyed more yummy food. We sang some Christmas songs and watched the story "Christmas Oranges" read. After that the kids exchanged their gifts and also the adults. We have always opened some presents on Christmas Eve. So this was great fun.

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Decorating our cookies

Devyn snuck a little frosting.
Ethan and Mackenzie fighting over Grandpa Myron

Cute little Kyle

When the kids exchanged presents, Ethan got a sucker on top of his. It was of course his favorite thing. I had to video him licking his sucker. I thought it was so funny.

Just like many other people have the tradition of Christmas PJ's we do to. We have carried on down the tradition to our kids and this year they all matched. A couple of them forgot their jammies on Christmas Eve but we took the picture anyways.

The boys fell asleep on the way home, so Devyn got the cookies for santa and the carrots for the reindeer ready.