12/27/10

christmas eve 2010

As far back as I can remember, we’ve gone to the Stinson’s house and gathered together with friends from our former church. There is always quite a spread of food, hayrides in trailers/pick-up trucks, and some sort of game that everyone has to play.

Alas, this year the plans changed. Before Dad felt bad, we decided (and by we, I mean Dad and Clark. I was totally against it) that we’d do Christmas with my mom’s parents on Christmas Eve in order to stay home on Christmas Day.

Nothing went according to “plans”. Dad spiked a 104 temp, hallucinated that the curtains were moving in the middle of the night, soaked through the bed sheets and 3 pairs of PJ’s in 1 night, and broke out in a rash. Thus, no family Christmas.

Before you think that our Christmas weekend was all gloom and doom, I have to say it was nice, peaceful, and all of the other nice words you can think of. Kinda sorta like the pictures below…

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We have a tradition that we open 1 gift on Christmas Eve after we read the Advent story, and, of course, I had to get pictures of that! Duh!

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My turn! Finally, because we had to wait for Clark to change before I could open mine…

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Please, oh please, ignore the puffy and makeupless face! I didn’t realize I looked so tired until now…

P.S. I got Aeropostale PJs! Love!

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After we put on the Christmas PJ’s, we “help” each other put the star on the velcro Advent calendar….

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…And take pictures to compare with others from years past in front the tree.

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So there you have it: our non traditional (kinda sorta) Christmas Eve, complete with popcorn and a movie, chills, and fever. Thankfully, that part was reserved for Dad. :)

Up next: Christmas morning 2010, the 3rd snow of 2010 (and the 3rd snow of December) plus a recap of the year 2010. I mean, it IS almost the end of the year, you know!

P.S. Yes, I am using this post as a double for an abbreviated version of Preview Monday. Thanks for asking!

2 comments:

  1. had to drop a note somewhere thanking you again for doing the giveaway ~ got my earrings today, and I L.U.V. them! hope your Dad's feeling better, and that y'all had a wonderful Christmas :-)

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  2. You guys are so cute!
    I hope you had a wonderful time :D
    Xoxo
    Sarah

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