It was hard this year trying to schedule a party for Casey's family. Between everyone's schedules (work, school, basketball), and different holiday plans we decided to have a Sunday dinner at Casey's parents home.
After Casey's game Saturday (first loss of the season : /) we headed out to Raft River. We've had some good family time the past three weekends there between Thanksgiving the Webb party that no one came to because of snow and our party this past weekend.
Sunday we went to church with Casey's parents. Peter went to his second successful nursery time (I think he does well because he doesn't have to sit still, there are toys, and above all they have snacks!). Kendal went to primary with Grandma. Apparently she wouldn't hold still during singing time and had to keep checking the nativity out with another little girl. Then she turned around and started leading the music. Instead of lessons they got to hear some Christmas stories, decorate a cupcake, and make a baby Jesus craft.
After church the family started rolling in. Before long we were all assembled and the wonderful chaos began. There are 8 going on 9 grand kids right now. (Kendal 4, David 3, Bryker 2, Jaxson 2, Hunter 2, Becca 2, Pete 1, Keegan 1, Baby Anderson {still cooking}) Needless to say with a house full of toddlers it was crazy.
I attempted ornament hand prints with the kids. They looked fine, but I baked them and the kids pushed a bit to hard painting them so many broke (O well). We ate a delicious dinner of french dip and yummy side dishes. Cody and Grandma each read a story. Some of the kids were surrounding Grandma and by the end of the story she was almost toppled over.
We did the annual cereal game where we pass wrapped cereal left and right to a story that Mom reads. The kids were anxious to unwrap gifts so by the time we were done a good majority of the boxes had torn paper. Pete opened his before the story began and spent the entire story walking around trying to get help tearing into the box to get the cereal.
Next we did our gift exchange. Peter got a cute Sunday outfit from Grandma and a big toy dump truck from David. Kendal got two princess dresses from Grandma and a hair clip holder with a bunch of hair clips from Becca. This morning Kendal kept switching between her princess dresses and twirling around the room. Casey and I were spoiled by his parents with a crock pot a blue ray dvd player, and some cash. Sarah gave Casey a gift card to Amazon for him to get Kindle books or other fun stuff. I got a nifty tool kit from Jordan. After some yummy desert and more play time we headed back to our humble abode filled happy thoughts of the day.
I love the holidays that bring family together and Christmas time is definitely my favorite family gatherings.
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