Christmas Eve

We were lucky to have family at our house on Christmas Eve. Lonnie and Peter, Lonnie's parents and Mom and Dad. We sure missed everyone else. It was pretty quiet and we kept expecting more people to arrive. We still had some fun, there was the kid's gift exchange, adult white elephant, Christmas Story, and lots of yummy food.

Love all these women!

The kids before their gift exchange

Somebody scored!

Cute cousins

Enjoying their loot after Grandma's candy/story/game - it was fun!

Watching the parents open the silly ones

I didn't capture all the fun stuff but here's the beauty I found at the thrift store the day before. All the little girls really wanted it although it was kind of creepy. I think Peter ended up taking her home.

Look at how excited Peter is to get a tote bag filled with pieces to an unfinished quilt! (Ray ended up with that in the end!)

Dessert! It's almost Santa time!!!

And of course before getting snug in our beds we ended the night with new Christmas pj's