Christmas Eve

  Ok seriously BEST Christmas Eve yet!!!  We loaded the Blue Beast to the brim, grabbed Chinese food and headed for Arbon.  We all stuffed ourselves and enjoyed some stories (Shawn and Grandma always have a good story to tell ;).  Then a group of us played Sneaks for 2 hours!  Seriously we were yelling and laughing so hard, Eric and I had head aches and I was hoarse.  After that Grandpa asked us to play a few rounds of Go Fish with him.  Then it was time to get going on dinner, steak, cesar salad, garlic shrimp, rolls and banana cake.
  After a yummy dinner with Grandpa and Grandma and Shawn's family, Kabree played her Christmas recital song on the piano for everyone and Keagan showed everyone her Christmas recital dance. Then Grandma told the Nativity story and we ended with Silent Night.  Then it was time for more wild games!  My girls LOVE spending Christmas Eve in Arbon because of this!!!  Grandpa and Grandma got into the games too and we were all laughing and exhausted by 9 p.m.  The plastic wrap game was hilarious and I did not get the best pictures because it was so intense haha.  Eric and Ethan are way more competitive than I realized!  Eric killed it in the candy cane pick up game, Grandma and I tried a different approach, that proved to be unsuccessful haha.  Grandpa and Grandma by far dominated the reindeer game, poor Shay was with me so she didn't have a chance.  We ended with Keagan's favorite Christmas game "Don't Eat Rudolph".
  Then it was time to set out the cookies for Santa and watch a Christmas movie.  About 4 a.m. Kabree woke up and said "Mom, I hear something...I think it's Santa" and you know what I heard it too and we even saw him make a dash down the hall ;)!!!  Kabree quickly went back to sleep but I was up for the day!  Even though I was exhausted I sure love late night talks with my Dad ;).

 Ethan joined us later

 Is it Shawn or cousin Eddy?

 Christmas Eve dinner

 The Nativity story

 Christmas pj's

 Game time

 Eric killed at this game

 Mom & I had a different approach...

bulldoze your face to try and get some, we didn't do very good lol

 Grandpa Vance and Grandma JoAnn killed in this game, they won hands down.

   Kabree tricked Eric in this game and was so proud of herself.  He looked at her to see if she would give any signs and she looked at him and shook her head to not eat a certain one so he moved to the next one which was "it" so he was out of the game, she couldn't stop laughing.

 My favorite Christmas tradition, my Mom paints the mirrors