Christmas Eve we headed over to my parents house. We always start with family pictures. The inspirational couple who started it all.
All of us.
This is what happens when you give your camera to a 5 year old. ;) Chuckle.
While we waited for dinner to get ready the kids decided to have a dance party.
We had a delicious dinner as always. Mom always likes to try and find some fun Christmas drink. This year it was a Christmas tree shot. At dinner we have a tradition of going around the table and making toasts. This year they consisted of, “to health”, “to mom and dad who started it all”, “to future additions to the family”, “to family”, to the Vikings”, “to being able to celebrate together”, “to having jobs”, “to dad’s retirement in March!!”, and the best one from the 5 year old…” to baby Jesus being born!”.
After dinner and clean up we opened presents and played with all the new goodies.
We headed to the 10:00pm mass. It’s always so beautiful. The kids always fall asleep during it, but there is just something about being at the evening mass that I enjoy. Plus, mom has been a part of the program before mass for the past few years now so we go and watch and listen to the beautiful music. After mass we came back to our house and the boys woke up quick. We put out cookies for Santa and said our goodbyes to Elfie.
Morning came and the boys found all their gifts and goodies from Santa. He brought some smaller stuff and then a air hockey table in our basement.
After the boys had some time to play with their stuff from Santa, we opened our family presents.
After we cleaned up, we headed over to mom and dad’s again for brunch and more time together. We played with all the new presents and games.
What a blessed Christmas we have had. We get to have one more celebration in January with Barb yet. Merry Christmas!
