A Very Merry Christmas Eve was spent at the Blanchards' in West Haven. We met up with Grandpa and Grandma (and Aggie) and Heather, Scott, Kage and Dray at lunchtime and got right down to our feast first thing. What a spread! - Deli sandwiches, chicken nuggets, egg rolls, chips and salsa, cocktail shrimp, cheese balls, spinach salad, clam chowder (or oyster stew), and new this year - hot dogs (thanks to Uncle Rex's gift to Grandpa - a hot dog steamer!). We ate and then played Telestrations, which was super fun. Then we opened a couple presents - we decided this year to focus on our summer reunion trip and not do big gifts for each other, but none of us could help gifting a few fun things. Heather gave us a framed water color print of Colorado (Ohio for the parents) and we gave the plastic canvas Santa ornaments (plus a family photo calendar to the parents because I just can't help myself with the codes from Shutterfly!). And, of course, there were jammies for the kids. Then we lounged and visited and opened stockings and ate crepes and acted out the nativity till it was time to go home. Sam fell asleep in the car (another no-nap day will do that!), but Cal was still awake so she set out cookies for Santa and we snuggled with her on the couch watching Mickey's Christmas Carol before she went off to bed.
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| Scott was pretty tired, so he made a great manger while he napped. |
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| Callie is really not into dressing up around people lately (I don't really know, but it seems consistent since Halloween), so she opted to be the narrator and totally crushed all the big reading/speaking parts of our nativity. |
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| Sam didn't want to wear a costume either, so he was an innkeeper with Gregg. Dray was Joseph/Wise Man, Heather was Mary, Kage was a shepherd, Kim (and Paul) were innkeepers, I was the angel. |
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| New jams from gramps and gram! |
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| Fun stockings! |
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| Everything is ready for Santa! |
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