Christmas Eve

Historically, when we are with my family at Christmas, Christmas Eve is spent hosting a meal and exchanging gifts with Jim's kids - my step siblings. Now that we all have kids, it gets kinda crazy. Total we had 12 adults and 5 kids. We did manage to wrangle the kids long enough to get a group shot of all the grandkids.

But the craziness started earlier in the day when the power went out for about an hour and a half. Thankfully, nothing was in the oven and it didn't throw a huge kink in any of our plans. John had taken the kids (JHP, B and JW) over to the park. And we worked around the inconvenience of having no electricity. Mom has a gas store so we could do some cooking.

Earlier in the day, I made cupcakes for the evening dessert, to celebrate Jesus's Birthday. My son was so methodical about eating all the icing off the cupcake before he actually ate the cupcake. The method proved wise as he probably got less icing on him than the other kids, but he was the last one at the table, which didn't seem to bother him much.

-EBP-