Here’s the play by play on Christmas Eve!! The last few years we have gotten together with Ben’s sister and her family but this year all of Ben’s siblings that live in Utah were able to reserve Christmas Eve for our family so we all got together at Pete and Amanda’s. It is tradition to eat all of our favorite snack foods throughout the night… This was the table o snacks also known as dinner – So yummy!

it still looked this full after we had all eaten!

the little girls table

Christmas Eve is never complete without the family Nativity…

Practicing being Sheep and a Shepherd Girl.

The Guys waiting for the show to start.

Benji's trying to quiet the other sheep during the presentation

Rose got to be the star of the show this year.

The whole crew singing "away in a manger"

Emily and Schyleur moved back to Utah so they came to the party and Schyleur got to meet Rose…

Now she just needs to meet my brother Sean and Ben's brother Rick and Sister-in-law Jen then she'll have met all 26 of her aunts and uncles!

We then started a new tradition of Christmas Eve Dancing… Benji wanted to show off his Dance move’s that he has been practicing (usually in the kitchen after dinner with his dad and siblings). He danced for everyone and then we had all of the cousins join in for the rest of the song.

The Dancing King - he does pretty good if you can convince him to stay on his feet and not roll around on the ground.

Cousin time

more cousins

CAli loves to Dance

Packer Dancer

After that we had a cousins and siblings gift exchange and then hurried home to get ready and in bed before Santa tried to come. The boys left cookies and milk for Santa and a celery stick for Dasher. They were super excited and super tired and went right to sleep.

Ben with Em and Schy and his new Shirt!