A Wonderful, Wonderful Christmas!

We had such a fun Christmas in Boise with my family. It was a crazy exciting time. I have so much to post...a caroling party, a girl's princess pageant, shopping at the dollar store, family fun times, and so on. Tonight I am just going to post pictures from the actual holiday. We had a grand, grand time! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Christmas Eve starts with making and delivering treats, Manti soup (thanks Grandma), a Christmas Nativity pageant, and Open Christmas Eve presents.

Hannah and Emma help Nana make chocolate peanut clusters

That is a lot of yummies!
Grandpa took chocolate and put it in Caleb's cars. I love his face when he sees them. :)

Spence and his homies (Preston and Caleb) play a little wii

Nana and Lizzie duel at Racko

Caleb and Uncle Joe play some more wii (he is such a guy, even at age two!)

Donnetta and Kerri help with the bread bowls for our yummy soup

The kids table

Brielle wasn't the happiest angel in the program

Emma, the wise-woman

Dad reads the story with gusto

Samuel the Lamanite, aka Ammon, seems to always get hit with those darn stones

Joseph (Spence), Mary (Sydney), and the donkey (Addie)

Joe helps Bekah with Christmas Eve presents

Nana got the grandkids cute slippers

The kids were also all able to open one "stay at Nana's house" gift to play with on Christmas Eve while the adults had their party time

All the kids got new Christmas pjs from their parents (yes they made out this Christmas Eve!). Here are the girls (left to right) Addie (8), Lizzie (7), Emma (4), Sydney (3), Brielle (5), Hannah (8), and Rebekah (1)

Boy cousins (minus a sleeping Joshua) From left...Caleb (2), Ammon (11), Preston (1), James (12), and Karl (7)

My parents do a fun Christmas Eve tradition for the adults. They buy really nice and/or fun presents that use in the old pass around/steal game. Hmmmm. Not sure what to call it. It is always full of laughter. I was sooooo happy that we went home with this clock!

Dad gets ready to open a present

Joe steals one There is always lots of laughing

Christmas morning, the kids line up youngest to oldest to enter the living room to see what Santa left

Lizzie checks out her stocking

Sigh...Caleb has a love of guns that I'm not really sure what to do with

Bekars is a big girl too

Emma is excited

Ammon explains how to use the gift he got for Hannah

Caleb got a Leapfrog...he calls it his gameboy

Hannah enjoys a book

The aftermath