Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was nice ;) I ran all the last minute errands we needed & we decorated our ornaments. Hopefully every year we'll be able to add some ornaments to our tree. I was at Michaels & saw some small letters & thought they would be fun to paint. So I bought 2 s's & a j for our first names & we decorated them. Actually, Sean mostly decorated them. He happened to have some red & green spray paint & loves using it!! So he drilled a hole in the tops & I ran some ribbon through them & we hung them up after they dried.
My family always gets together on Christmas Eve & has food & my dad reads the Christmas story from the Bible while my nieces & nephew act it out. here we are..
Kelli & Aaron

Phil & Melissa

Nancie, Andy & JoDee

Chino, & Chelle

the Johnsons :)

Crazy Grant

Jocelyn with the elf ears all the kids were passing around all night.

Well, as many people know, my parents aren't here this year :( They are on their mission in Pennsylvania, so they weren't here for the Christmas traditions. I know that the sisters & elders in Pennsylvania were very grateful to have them there to help them have a Merry Christmas though... so they sent us a little video of my dad reading the Nativity... Here is dad sitting in his chair :)

Joseph (Grant), Mary (Jen) & baby Jesus (Sam) singing Away in a Manger

the angel of the Lord (Katie) appearing to the Shepherds (Jolie & Griffin)


the shepherds visiting Jesus

Another musical number....

The 3 wise men (Jocelyn, Janet & Aniston) bringing their Gold, Frankincense & Myrh

Group shot-

My mom sent a little message via video as well. It wasn't long.. only about 10 seconds- but seeing her be emotional in any form causes more emotion on our part. Someone commented that it only took 10 seconds to make all her children tear up . We miss you mom & dad!!!!!!!!!