Christmas Eve

Every year on Christmas Eve my family goes to the live Nativity. Bruce loved watching the story of Christ birth he keeping telling me what was happening from the story's we had been reading. It was really crowded and their were more the a couple mean people who pushed our kids out of were they were standing, I had to keep telling myself the meaning of Christmas so I didn't tell these people off. I think next year we are going to go on the 22 or 23 not Christmas Eve. They were really rude.
You can barley see Angel Moroni but he is on a tall ladder on the roof of a house, and the wind is blowing like crazy (being sailors now we get updates on the weather and when it is dangerous to go out on the lake and this particular storm brought in winds up to 120mph) It was scary to watch him up on the ladder, and you could see how hard he was trying to stay on it.

The kids all enjoyed the animals they use Preston was so excited when they came out. After the play was over my Family went to my Parents for soup. We went to Bob's family for Dinner and presents. Here is a picture of Beck, Ry and Hudson, I can't believe how tall Hudson is. It is fun to see him and Preston together, They are 8 months apart (Preston is older) and he is way tall then Preston, but I think they weigh the same :)

Here is Grey Amanda, Gracie, and Maggie I think Gavin is off playing with Bruce, they have such fun together. I think Bruce is excited to be around a boy his age he has so many girl cousins his age and only a couple boy cousins.

Every year GG reads us Christmas Story's. This year she did thinks alittle different and read us one of John's favorite story's Cowboy Dan. She had run across it going through some things and wanted to share it with us. Dad usually read us The Littlest Angel which always makes me cry, he didn't this year. I had told my Mom how much I missed it and she found a copy as she was going through my Grandparents things and gave it to me (there are a couple different copies of this book and this one happened to be the same one Dad usually reads) I cried as I read it to my kids. I know I didn't know John but for some reason I've always felt close to him, I always end up crying when I see picture of him or hear a story that reminds the family of him.


The kids all got pajamas from GG and PaPa they all looked so cute in them. We tried to get a group shot, if you notice my kids are the only ones not holding still. They have so much energy, My Grandma always tells me that's a sign of greatness.

Bruce was so excited to leave Santa Cookies. I tried this recipe from the Pioneer Woman (My favorite blog ever) She always has the best recipes. All but this one. I am surprised Santa didn't take back all the Present after he tasted them,