Christmas Eve 2007

We spent Christmas Eve with my family (the Price's). There was a huge snow storm that day, so luckily everyone made it to my parents safely. We kicked off our festivities by decorating sugar cookies to give to those we went caroling to, then we went caroling, had dinner, opened presents (we do a cousins and sibling/husband exchange), had a family talent show and called it a night.

Here we are getting ready to take on the storm to go caroling. Our family is so not the "singing/caroling" type, but somehow this got planned for the party- so we all went along with it. We picked a few people around the neighborhood who we thought might need some holiday cheer and it was actually quite rewarding, not to mention fun. We got all bundled up and treked through the snow-the kids totally enjoyed it. They were singing from the top of their lungs in the car- what good memories.

Rylee and Jace with the gifts from their cousins. This is a tradition that I used to have with my cousins growing up.

Here's Jace and his cousins, Payton and Savanna, doing a couple numbers for the family talent show. This is a tradition we started a few years back and I love to see what everyone does. Only one person per family is required to do something, so we sent Jace up to bat after Justin declined to sing Santa Baby. (J/K) They sang a Frosty song, Guess who wears... and Must Be Santa. So cute!



We usually do the talent show, act out the Nativity and play some carols with the Christmas chimes- this is really a fun and chaotic activity for anyone who hasn't ever seen/heard of this before. But this year we just did the talent show since caroling took longer. Great memories and great fun!

And... did I mention the snow?- we seriously got a down-pour. Here's Justin snow blowing our driveway in the wee hours of the night. Just clearing a way for Santa I guess. And the hat? He either bought that while on his mission or it was a gift from one of his brother's old girlfriends? Pretty snazy.