Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a fun day. We had G&G T, my brother Bryan and his family and my sister Johanna and her family all over for a nice feast. We missed my other sister Jennifer and her family in Ohio! We feasted on a yummy ham dinner. After trying out a few hams through the last few years I have finally figured out how to cook one and make it taste good. After dinner and some visiting it was time to open their one Christmas Eve present. The kids were so excited to finally open something after seeing the presents sit under the tree for a few days. They all ran over (except Sarah and Noah) and dove right in. Sarah wondered what was going on. We had to help Sarah and Noah unwrap their presents. Daniel was slightly disappointed when all it was was pajamas. However, they quickly got undressed and everyone got their pajamas on.

I was able to find matching pajamas for the boys. Sarah got some princess jammies instead. The three older boys' pajamas say Big Brother while Noah's say Little Brother.

After the kids got their jammies on we got some warmer clothes to put over the top of them and headed out to Ogden's Christmas Village with G&G T. Ogden City lights up a huge city block with different winter scenes. The kids love it. To keep Noah warm he got put in the front pack and then my coat got zipped up over the front of him. A few people came by to get a closer look because they thought I was wearing a Halloween costume at first.

When we got back home we all had some hot chocolate to warm up. We then read the Christmas Story from the scriptures and then tucked the kids in bed. Holy cow they didn't get to sleep until LATE!! Santa then came and left quite a haul.