Traaaadition! TRAAAADITION! (Fiddler in your head now?) This is how we do it.

Christmas Eve dinner at the Jamie & Linda Kreyling Home. We eat Navajo Tacos, Scones with Honey butter, and lots of pie and cookies. Games, Caroling, Stories (“Teach the Children”), & FUN!

Sitting with our stockings Christmas morning before heading over to Jamie & Linda’s for our traditional Eggs, Scones and yet more Honey Butter! We NEVER wake up with enough time to open presents before we are due to go eat the delish. So we dig into our stocking then load into cars. We eat breakfast, play a few games, and THEN we head back home to open gifts. Sam HATES this. She would like us up at 5 am to open gifts “like normal families do”. But we are SO not normal!

Kaylee loves going to Jamie & Linda’s. She always has SO MUCH FUN! Jadzia & Cassie spoil her. And she LOVES to play the piano and they have one. So she is pretty much in heaven there.

Kaylee was very pleased with her new apron (Mama made), and her new Barbie princess movie. Speaking of Barbies. She got several (with tons of clothes) hand me down barbies from Aunt Linda. She LOVES her princess’! She even shared the Aladin boy one with Regan. She got quite a lot of goodies this year. And it was the first year she really got into unwrapping everything by herself.

Dinner with ALL the Kreyling’s Christmas day. This was 1 of 4 FULL tables. It was awesome how much family was able to come. We eat at the Manderin Buffet. You know ’cause it’s open, and there is NO cooking/cleaning required of us. SWEET! Jon still thinks it’s just plain wrong to have Chinese for Christmas Dinner. He is happy that next year Christmas falls on a Sunday. Which means we will not be going out to eat. Sabbath Day and all. He wants a ham. No egg rolls please. (although he happily ate lots at the buffet)

And of course my baby browns! He ate peas, and stole multiple forks (see above photo for evidence). Peas were the only thing I deemed as safe for him to eat. They made a lovely mess. 🙂 He got lots of goodies as well. I made him a couple of ties from some of his Papa’s old ones. And he wears them with his Daddies mission tie clip. I forgot to get a photo of the ridiculous amounts of cuteness. I’ll get one this coming Sunday. It’s to die for adorable!

Oh, and I loved all the cards you sent me us this year. They look so lovely on my tree. I’ll scan my favorite card to share. Never mind it’s HERE. It’s pretty AWESOME right?!

We hope everyone had a lovely Family & Christ filled Christmas!