Christmas Eve

 Christmas Eve was an interesting day. Our sink has started to clog on the 23rd, which is never any fun. We had called maintenance that day, but no one came. It got even worse on Christmas Eve. I called again saying our kitchen sink was clogged (we couldn't do any dishes). Well, they didn't end up coming until after Christmas when our sink started overflowing! We actually brought dishes to our friend's house on Christmas Eve so we could wash them! That was the non-fun part of Christmas Eve. But, there was plenty of fun stuff as well!

We opened our last for the 12 days of Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa Walker. It was pajamas for the kids and they loved them! Of course, they wore them to bed that night!

We spent the morning and afternoon just playing at home and making rolls for our dinner. We also made some bread and cookies to give away to home and visiting teachees and other friends. Or course, there was lots of Christmas carols singing going on all day long! They love Christmas carols (as do I). As we were heading to the Peterson's house for dinner, we dropped those things off.

Dinner was fun. We had three families - Peterson's, Workman's, and us - with all of our kiddos - a total of 8 kids. We all brought stuff to the meal and talked about traditions and fun memories of Christmas Eve. We had the kids act out the nativity and it sort of worked. Here are the kids ages: 6, 3, 3, 2 (Eve of just 1 day), 1, 1, 4 months. So, Reed did a great job helping Taryn (who played Mary) to her spot. Aria was the baby Jesus and Eve was a sheep/shepherd/wise person. It was still cute, but I got no photos! Ah well - it was nice to here the nativity read again. That's one of my favorite Christmas traditions. We even talked about what it all mean afterwards and Reed got it! Yeah :)

We headed home and got ready for bed. The kids each got open one gift and decided to open the presents from Grandma and Grandpa Rowberry. They were presents from Turkey (the country) from where Grandma and Grandpa had recently returned. Reed got a vest and Eve got a scarf and coin purse. They were so excited!

Then, they were off to bed so that Santa could come to our house, not forgetting to put on their new pjs before retiring to bed.

Opening presents while brushing teeth

It's serious work

Trying to get a good photo of Reed

It just didn't quite end up working out

Well, that's probably the best one :)

I think Eve looks beautiful in this one!