Christmas Eve Festivities
Today/tonight, we carried on the tradition we have been doing with friends for about 10 years now. We invited a couple of families over (Liddell and Ahlstrom) and we had dinner at our house. After dinner, we went caroling to 5-6 families in the area (in all three wards we are all in). We had a GREAT time and it really touched some of the people we sang and brought treats to.
After caroling, we came back to our house and acted out the nativity in our basement. As always, it was a LOT of fun and we also got some humble laughs. We always enjoy doing that and it’s even better when you have a full cast to help you out! 🙂
After the nativity play, we had a dessert buffet, hot chocolate, and lots of goodies…
Angela always puts together quite the shindig! We all ate until we were stuffed and ready to go to bed and let sugar plums (or maybe sugar “tums”) dance in our heads! 🙂 The kids had a great time too! The older kids sang, played their instruments, and it was wonderful to hear music floating throughout the house. I wish that this would happen more often but the girls don’t bring home their instruments to practice as much as they should! 🙂
After bidding everyone good-bye, the boys went out and scattered their reindeer food on the front lawn. They then ran to bed as fast as they could!
What a great night! We are glad we can continue to carry on the tradition here. It was bittersweet, however, as we really do miss the Oscarson’s and other families we used to do this with in Illinois.
