Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a blast! For the first time ever we had Christmas Eve at my cousin Owens house. Our family tradition has been to have it at my Aunt Laurels, then our house and then my Uncle Gary's every year since before I can even remember. It goes in order from oldest to youngest. Now every year somebody new will have it, it rotates through the family. Now that Owen and Donna, Kyle and Teri and Jessica and Carl all have there own houses we can start having it over there. Thus, somebody will have Christmas Eve and then they wont have to have it again for another six whole years.
We had lots of good foods, everyone brought one new item this year just to spice things up. Our tradition is to do finger foods, snacky stuff, we don't eat a real meal. Everyone brings different foods and we have it all buffet style. Eat what you want when you want. Its nice having little kids around now as well because we get to watch them open there gifts and play all night.














One of our other traditions is white elephant. Everyone wraps up some junk, an item they don't want anymore. Its fun seeing what everyone gets because some of the stuff is just ridiculous!


































































For the first time ever Kristi brought along her boyfriend Shawn to Christmas Eve and what does he get for a white elephant... a penis cake mold. That was the joke of the night! What are is parents going to think of our family when they see that. Or there going to think he wasn't really at Christmas Eve and he went somewhere else instead.














































I hope everyone had a Merry Eve! I sure did.