The fun started when both sets of grandparents and two uncles came to join in our Christmas Eve tradition of making candy houses. Ethan was having so much fun, he ended up making three houses!
Madeline was only interested in eating, "MM s" and what a feat to even get this much candy on her house!:
Todd and his brother Mike both thought outside the normal candy house box. Mike made a temple and Todd a Star Destroyer:
Here are all the works of candy art. Everything from
trailer park houses and lean-
to's, to The
Oquirrh Mountain Temple!
After the houses, we enjoyed a feast of pork loin, twice baked potatoes, rolls, salad, sweet potatoes, and much more. Then we were all almost too full for the Christmas goodies:
After eating, we acted out the first Christmas. Ethan was Joseph and Madeline was Mary. It was pretty funny . . . the rest of us even dressed up too.
Hmmm, but no pictures of that! Then the kids opened their Christmas Eve presents:
Matching polar bear
jammies!
Here they are with Grandpa and Nana! I wanted to get a picture of them with my parents too, but by then they were so hyper they wouldn't sit still for even one more picture!
Ethan was bouncing off the walls excited. He was just sure he'd be able to hear Santa's bells in the night!
Madeline was only interested in eating, "MM s" and what a feat to even get this much candy on her house!:
Todd and his brother Mike both thought outside the normal candy house box. Mike made a temple and Todd a Star Destroyer:
Here are all the works of candy art. Everything from trailer park houses and lean-to's, to The Oquirrh Mountain Temple!
After the houses, we enjoyed a feast of pork loin, twice baked potatoes, rolls, salad, sweet potatoes, and much more. Then we were all almost too full for the Christmas goodies: 
After eating, we acted out the first Christmas. Ethan was Joseph and Madeline was Mary. It was pretty funny . . . the rest of us even dressed up too. Hmmm, but no pictures of that! Then the kids opened their Christmas Eve presents:
Matching polar bear jammies!
Here they are with Grandpa and Nana! I wanted to get a picture of them with my parents too, but by then they were so hyper they wouldn't sit still for even one more picture!
Ethan was bouncing off the walls excited. He was just sure he'd be able to hear Santa's bells in the night! 
6 comments:
Sure was FUN!
LOL!!!! I'm sorry, but my favorite part of this post was seeing Madeline in that brown hat. It just cracks me up.
Otherwise, the pictures are so fun. The houses look awesome! It's so much fun to make houses in such a big group (same with Em). I'm jealous! I loved the kids in their jammies, too! SO CUTE!
Oh! I'm so tickled to see the pictures from that night. It sure was wonderful to see Randy and Sherrie, Mike and Brian too. I guess I think of them as members of my family now. Oh WOWOW...didn't we have fun! Thanks for making our Christmas so wonderful.
Looks like an absolutely wonderful Christmas Eve. And I love the houses you all made! How wonderful
A wonderful time with lots of yummy food to go with it.
We really enjoyed the evening.
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