Christmas Eve Festivities
As always, tonight we had a GREAT Christmas Eve! As in years past, we had a great dinner, caroling, and nativity!
We got together with 3 other couples and their families for dinner and had a wonderful spread! By the time we finished eating, we weren’t sure if we could walk out to the cars to go caroling! 🙂 It’s always fun to get together with friends for a great meal and to socialize. We really appreciate this tradition that we have now been doing for about 5 years now…
After dinner, we all piled in our cars and drove around the area singing Christmas carols and delivering plates of cookies to families. We were well received. The only issue we had is that at one place (along a busy road), Zach and Ben jumped out and ran across the road without looking! 😐 There were cars coming and it was a close call! They were so fast, that I didn’t even have a chance to get out of the van before they were gone! One of the other ladies that was there with us about had a heart attach along with me! Fortunately we had two cars with us and Angela was already around the corner so she didn’t see it first hand! Boy did those little guys get a talking to! Other than that, we had a blast!
We then came to our house and acted out the Nativity. This year we had a baby, so we didn’t have to use a doll! 🙂 It was a lot of fun and although it seems and looks really corny, it really makes Christmas Eve complete!
After acting out the Nativity, we went upstairs for a hot chocolate bar. It was wonderful and everybody drank hot chocolate and ate cookies and pastries until they were ready to go to sleep from food overload. 🙂 What a great time we have every year! We really look forward to that. Other than the kids getting presents on Christmas Day, we almost look more forward Christmas Eve and the activities we do then! Well, time to throw out the reindeer food and put out Santa’s plate, so we’ll see you tomorrow! Merry Christmas!
