Christmas Eve

Our Christmas Eve was wonderful this year. We began the day by having over Steven's family for lunch and visiting. Chris, Cathi, and sweet, new baby Sadie came. As did Steve and Suzi (FIL and MIL) and Meliss with Dakota (our 3 month old nephew), and his aunt and uncle Tanya and Gary, who are also foster parents, and they brought their three beautiful kiddos.

We all had a nice time visiting and the food was good (patting myself on the back, and thanking Kevin from Benson's Catering for the fabulous smoked Turkey). Gifts were exchanging, and fun was had by all, except poor Sadie, who was not feeling too well that day, as you can see here:
She was mad at Uncle Steven here, but would have been similar with just about anyone with that gassy belly!

Everyone stayed over for several hours, and when they all left Baby L crashed! He was pooped, he had so much fun playing with all the kids! While he napped, and Steven wrapped his last few gifts, I left and went to Christmas Eve church services with my family, then came home, bathed and fed the boy, and Steven passed out all the gifts (that were delivered to our house right after church).
Brooke and Justin's pile:

Mark, Lauren and Caitlyn's pile:

Steven, Baby L, and my pile:

And Mom and Galen's pile:


To see Baby L playing among the piles, go here.