Christmas Eve

We had family over at our house on Christmas Eve.  We had our usual Chinese food from Wu’s.  The favorite dish is still sesame chicken.  I think we had to order 4 of those.  Thanks to Gannie and Papa for bringing the food.  Thanks to Meredith for ordering it. She is the one in the family that coordinates things.  Without her we would be lost.

After dinner we watched “Joy to the World” which is a DVD telling the story of Christ’s birth.  After that we had to get out the pipe chimes and show how musical we are.  I am the conductor.  I have created PowerPoint slides that show when each chime needs to be played.  I then hand out the 20 different pipe chimes and somehow we make music.  This year I found some songs that require 4 pipes to be played at the same time.  I was surprised how well everyone did.  The musicians were between the ages 3 to 63.  Ziza just played her pipe chime constantly.  Give her another year or two and she will be and expert.  (Want to make your own pipe chimes?  Click here.)

If family gets together, I feel like I need to make ice cream.  Yummy as always.  Need the simple recipe?  Let me know.

Meredith and Lauren having a great time!

Kyra watching Elf from the coveted red chair.

Ava Jane was working on rolling over and showing off her cute legs!

I told Wes there was room for him on the couch between Ron and Greg, but he politely declined.