Christmas Eve (#3)

Ah Christmas Eve!!!  My favorite part of Christmas for sure.  We started the celebrating off with church at St. Mark's.  It was absolutely packed, a beautiful and stressful time all at once.  Following church we all gathered at Nana and Papa's.  This is an ongoing tradition that was started long before I was born.  Some of my favorite memories were made at my Grandma and Grandpa Faber's house on Christmas Eve.  I knew I couldn't keep Abram and Corryn in their Christmas attire all night so daddy took their pictures by the tree.  So Cute!!!

Merry Christmas!!

I love my little brother

I forgot socks for the little man, nice huh!!!  Our little hippie

After pictures, it was time to start dinner.  Appetizers were enjoyed by everyone as the boys were outside cooking steaks.  It was freezing, not sure we will do steaks next year...But the steak and potatoes were awesome for sure.  We then headed downstairs for presents and beer white elephant.  We opted to do a name exchange with the adults, which turned out awesome!!.  There was a group email that went out and everyone responded with their Christmas lists in an effort to keep who had who a secret.  I sent out a fake email of Aunt Bec's list with random household things like potatoes, underwear and other funny things.  Nathan thought the pototoes were serious=)

Aunt B and her potatoes!!

Corryn loved all her gifts, we found that she has a fear of bubble wrap...  Not sure when this started, but Andrew opened a gift with bubble wrap and Corryn totally freaked out.  She did not even want to open anymore presents.  Sarah and Corryn threw the bubble wrap away and Corryn was ready to go.  Abram was not as interested but got some great stuff!!

Corryn had asked for rocks and a stick, so her first gift was a small box of rocks=)

Enjoying her new towel!!

We then moved on to our 6 pack beer exchange.  We went from youngest to oldest and rules are similar to the white elephant exchanges.  Always funny here is a new beer that entered the game...

What a great night, we had a blast and both Corryn and Abram love their new toys and clothes.  We are so blessed to get to enjoy so many Christmas celebrations.  Exhaustion sets in for sure but it is always a blast and full of wonderful memories.