Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve morning the boys and I got dressed and attended our churches Christmas program.  It was such a great meeting and a perfect way to feel the spirit of the holiday. 

The primary kids sang a Christmas Lullaby.

My Mom, Andy and the kids joined us later that night for dinner.  Afterwords we decorated cookies, played games, and had dessert.

These were all the cookies Drake decorated with the help of Grandma Kate

Yum

 The first game we played was Minute to win it decorate the tree.  Each team member chose a person to be the tree and they had a minute to get that person decked out.  Team 1 was Maddie, Drake, Grandma Kate, and Karl

 Team 2 was myself, Fischer, Hunter, and Griffin. Uncle Andy was the Judge and our team won.

The next game was "finding Rodulf.  Each player was given a red "nose" attached to a string. The idea was to fling the nose on top of your nose by holding the string in your mouth. Petroleum jelly was placed on each of the participants noses to help it stick.  

Karl won the reindeer games but we had a bunch of cute reindeer.

 That night the kids got to open there Christmas PJs

 Grandma Kate was nice enough to stay and read bedtime stories.

Even the dogs were enjoying the stories.

Since Grandma Kate was spending the night and sleeping in Fischer Room, the older boys slept in Griffins room.