It seemed like we had just settled into seats on the airplane when the pilot announced that we were flying over Boise. How sweet it is to eat breakfast at home and arrive at Grandma's house nearly 1000 miles away by lunch.
We had a few hours before the family came over for our Christmas Eve celebrations so the girls and I made cookies for Santa.
My family has a Christmas Eve tradition of gathering together for my Mom's homemade clam chowder (she even makes a clam-free batch for me). Then we reenact the story of Christ's birth from Luke. Abigail wanted to be a wise man with her cousins Brynn and Emily. Carly opted to sit out and watch the production from the comforts of Grandma’s lap.
After the play my Mom had a white elephant gift exchange with the grandchildren. Everyone was excited for the fun to begin.
This was the first gift exchange my girls have participated in so it took a few turns for them to catch on to the whole “stealing gifts” idea. Abigail scored $10 along with her goodies and in the end Carly was lucky to walk away with a Zu Zu pet. There was also a gift exchange for the adults. I scored one of the sentimental gifts - a picture album from my Grandma Ikhaml with all the pictures our family has sent her throughout the years.
Then it was on to gifts from Grandma. All the kids got books and the girls got new Webkinz which they really, really wanted. Jason received a set of cars from the movie Cars – which he of course played with the rest of the evening.
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