I love this time of year. I love getting ready for Christmas and all of the fun food, decorations, parties, and memories that goes along with it. This year we were lucky enough to have Christmas Eve dinner with the Missionaries. It happened to fall on a "P" day so I got to see them early in the morning and then again for dinner.
We had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of Ham and the fixins. Usually I make Pie for dinner but no one wanted pie so I made Coconut bread instead. The dinner of course was delicious! I love holiday meals.
We only had the missionaries for 2 hours so we made the best of the time. We had our dinner then went downstairs and watched the movie "Joy to the World". It is a movie about Christ's birth and life here on earth.
After that movie was over we all opened our Christmas Eve pajama's. I even got some for the missionaries although they couldn't try them on for us. Everyone seemed to like their pajama's except for Tyler's shirt wasn't his favorite. The missionaries also got us a present to open on which was a really cute ornament.
After the missionaries left we watched our Christmas Eve movie. The movie this year was Arthur Christmas. We ate Christmas cookies and coconut bread. We also had hot chocolate to help it all go down with. I think we all liked the movie.
Because there is a house full of non believers here we came up with a new tradition of drawing names and stuffing each others stockings. It went over really well with everyone. We will be doing that again. We also drew names to buy presents for each other. We divided up into teams Nichole and Ella were on my team and we shopped for people on Nate's team which were Tyler and Natalie.
I really liked how it turned out and the kids had a fun time buying for each other.
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