December 24, 2014…Day 24..X:Xtra ordinary love is felt at Christmas time!

Christmas Eve today.  Had to head off to work thinking it was still going to be a full day.  We ended up only having to work half a day which was a really nice treat.  An added bonus was that my Mom and sister braved the crowds and grabbed me some groceries.  Which was wonderful to not have to worry about because the stores were crazy!!!

Christmas Eve has always meant that we, as a family, would head to church in the evening.  Once we were done church we would then head back to mom and dad's and have finger foods, games, and movies.

This year we decided to just celebrate at home with the family.  It was such a special Christmas having everyone all together again.  Last year we were all everywhere but together.  Mom found a good pod cast with Max Lucado.  Then we did some singing with mom playing the piano, my sister on her trumpet, and the rest of us singing some Christmas carols.

We did have games afterwards.  I had planned some fun ones….like who could wrap a gift in a quick time but still have good presentation.  As well as, 'what's in the stocking'….all I can say my poor orange that was in there and they all thought was a ball…they were squeezing that quite hard!!  And then pictures and trying to guess what Christmas song it was trying to be.  After some of those games we played a game called Quelf.  And well, I don't think I have laughed that hard in a while.  Nor did I ever thing I would see everyone slapping their butt saying 'yeehaw giddy up little dogie'