Christmas Eve

So, on Christmas eve we had been in Utah almost a week and were enjoying our stay at Chris' parent's new house. We enjoyed the day getting ready for the fun Christmas eve we were going to have. The cousins got together and made Christmas craft pictures and I helped Chris' mom get the table ready for dinner complete with cute place tags. Then that afternoon was a blast when Chris, Julia, Jason and I went to the $ store. We got a bunch of hilarious gag gifts to use for a fun exchange that night. We were laughing so hard in the store with the different things we found.

We made it back to wrap up the gifts and get ready for our Christmas eve. We all sat down to dinner, all of Chris' family was there except for Bret and Jeremy and their sweethearts. We had a great dinner and then moved on to the gag gifts. We drew #'s and had to pick gifts. One of the best gifts was the $ sign bling that Grandma got and Nan got a pregnancy test...it was great...other silly gifts were magic tricks, grillz for your teeth, etc. It was a good time. Next the kids opened some games and played while we got ready for the nativity story.

Brooklyn got to be the angel in the Christmas story and Beckham was a shepard and their cousins, Claire and Xander were Mary and Joseph. Greg narrated the story as the kids acted it out. It was very entertaining. As the story got to where the angel appeared to the shepherds in the field...the story goes as follows:

Greg: There is a newborn King born in bethlehem and His name is
Claire: Nana
Brooklyn: No! We will call him Jesus!
Greg: That's right, he will be called Jesus....and the shepherds said how do we get there?
Brooklyn: (remember she is the angel) I will fly there!
Greg: But how do the shepherds find the baby Jesus
Brooklyn: Oh! they follow the star....now I will fly there.....(and she jumped off her chair and flew over to the baby Jesus and Beckham followed her)

It was so cute. We then sang a few songs and then it was time to open the traditional pajamas and take a group picture. We visited and hung out and got ready for Santa to come, Brooklyn put out her cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer, she was pretty excited. It was a nice night.