We got to host Christmas again this year and I am so grateful for that! I love hosting just about anything, and I especially love hosting my family at Christmas. My brother, Ryan, was with us for the first time since before his mission which brought lots of extra laughter, teasing, and lack of food having him around but it was great!
On Christmas Eve, we made our usual finger foods including little pizzas for the girls and we played some Minute-to-Win-It games which was a riot! We laughed til we cried or peed our pants, whichever came first. If you haven't seen the show, the point is to finish each game using household items within one minute. The first game involved using your facial muscles to move an Oreo from your forehead into your mouth, Cam won that one and the rest of us were laughing so hard we couldn't keep the Oreo on our faces.
Then using a candy cane, we had to hook the six other candy canes on our candy cane and Stacey won with a time of less than 15 seconds. Even Hallie and Sydnee did a great job on that game.
Then we had to wrap our partner using an entire roll of crepe paper the fastest and Ryan and Stacey won, spinning around as fast as he could.
Before the night was over, we celebrated Grandpa's birthday and the girls gave him an ornament that said, "Grandpa's the next best thing to Santa," and Grandpa blew out his birthday candles.
After that everyone opened up Christmas Eve pj's. The girls usually get a new bedtime story with their pj's and this year I made a storybook titled, "Our Alphabet Zoo" using the digital scrapbooking program I have and each page contains pictures of that letter. Hallie thought it was so cool to have pictures of her and all of our adventures and loved ones in a real book.
Then it was off to bed for the best morning ever...
We got to host Christmas again this year and I am so grateful for that! I love hosting just about anything, and I especially love hosting my family at Christmas. My brother, Ryan, was with us for the first time since before his mission which brought lots of extra laughter, teasing, and lack of food having him around but it was great!
On Christmas Eve, we made our usual finger foods including little pizzas for the girls and we played some Minute-to-Win-It games which was a riot! We laughed til we cried or peed our pants, whichever came first. If you haven't seen the show, the point is to finish each game using household items within one minute. The first game involved using your facial muscles to move an Oreo from your forehead into your mouth, Cam won that one and the rest of us were laughing so hard we couldn't keep the Oreo on our faces.
Then using a candy cane, we had to hook the six other candy canes on our candy cane and Stacey won with a time of less than 15 seconds. Even Hallie and Sydnee did a great job on that game. 
Then we had to wrap our partner using an entire roll of crepe paper the fastest and Ryan and Stacey won, spinning around as fast as he could.
Before the night was over, we celebrated Grandpa's birthday and the girls gave him an ornament that said, "Grandpa's the next best thing to Santa," and Grandpa blew out his birthday candles.
After that everyone opened up Christmas Eve pj's. The girls usually get a new bedtime story with their pj's and this year I made a storybook titled, "Our Alphabet Zoo" using the digital scrapbooking program I have and each page contains pictures of that letter. Hallie thought it was so cool to have pictures of her and all of our adventures and loved ones in a real book.
Then it was off to bed for the best morning ever...
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