Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Eve

Our Christmas Eve is packed full of traditions:

The annual Christmas Eve dinner at Nanna and Grandpa's house, complete with ham, rolls, parsley potatoes and pistachio salad.

After dinner it's into costumes and the Nativity play:

The wise men present their gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Big Boy #1 showed off his newly acquired guitar playing skills in his rendition of Silent Night.

My mother-in-law will be so happy to see this one, Diamond playing We Three Kings of Orient Are.

Big Boy #2 as Samuel the Laminite:

Aunt Ginger came through (yet again!) with a clever way of doing our annual pajama hunt. This year? Bingo!
All changed and ready to go:

Then it's one of my favorite parts of the evening; driving home and looking at all the lights - while keeping an eye out for Rudolph's nose.

Home, setting out Santa's cookies and milk, prayer and finally bed. Now we just need to figure out how to get them to fall asleep before midnight!

3 comments:

Cheryl said...

Oh David, I need to see a video of that one!

Vern said...

Mm, pistachio salad. Could I have that recipe?

And seriously, isn't Trevor a little old for one piece pajamas?

Mom of Three said...

It looks like you have been having a lot of fun this year. I love the picture of Dave with Santa!! I think the bell is still ringing for him :)