We had a wonderful Christmas Eve. The guys went skiing up to Bogus Basin all day and the girls stayed home, watched kids, and cooked a delicious Christmas Eve feast.
Each year our family chooses a country and does a Christmas Around the World dinner. This year we chose England and we served an old fashioned English meal of prime rib (roast beast as Dr. Seuss would say), yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes and gravy, roast butternut squash,
chocolate cinnamon bread pudding with caramel sauce and English Trifle with brownies and English toffee. 
It was all DELICIOUS!! After dinner, we did our traditional opening of one gift that just happens to be pajamas
and then we had our Christmas Eve program. We watched a few videos about the birth of Christ and then gave our "gifts to Jesus" and then read, sang and acted out the Christmas story from the scriptures. Lucy was Mary and Taylor was Joseph and Lucy took her job very seriously and several times had to tell Taylor to quit goofing around. 
After the program, we put out cookies (Sarah made some delicious chocolate peppermint cookies) and milk for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph and laid out our stockings and then it was off to bed.
It was so fun on Christmas morning to have little children in the house with all their excitement.
We opened our gifts
and prepared our traditional breakfast of aebleskivers, sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, hot chocolate and juice
and then we got the best Christmas present of all when Whitney called home from Russia. Grandma and Grandpa Charlie had come over for breakfast so they got to talk with her also. It was so fun to hear her voice and ask her questions. We also got to hear her speak Russian which brought tears to my eyes. John and Cindy and Missy, Jedd and the kids came over later that night and we had another feast with ham, rolls, funeral potatoes, salads, and desserts.
It was all delicious and after dinner we had our traditional game of Trivial Pursuit and for the first time in many years, the girls won!! Yippee!!It was such a blessing to spend Christmas with the whole family (Whitney was there in spirit)cause that is what Christmas is all about. The gift of eternal families through our Savior Jesus Christ.
4 comments:
What wonderful traditions you have! It was so fun to see and read all about your merry Christmas.
I love the Palmerish line up on the stairs Christmas morning picture.
Oh I am so jealous that the girls won Trivial Pursuit. We have been trying for years to beat the Mickelsen men! Your dinner sounded wonderful. It looks like a great holiday.
I wish I could relive it all, as I sit here in Philly in freezing cold weather with January blues.:) Isn't Christmas wonderful?? We lucked out.
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