Christmas Eve

Every year we have a big family get together on Christmas Eve at my parents house.  This year we had a lot of family home from various corners of the country. Well just Utah and Oregon but still.  We always have a big pot luck dinner and then sit down and play some games.  Opa reads the account of the birth of Christ from the Bible and Terence reads the account from the book of Mormon.  This year we all were given an opportunity to say how we had felt the hand of God in our lives.  It was really nice to hear how different people in our family had felt blessed.  We also played a fun word game that the Sirrine's brought.  After the Program we always do a gag gift exchange.  We had some whopper presents this year (separate blog to come).  I LOVE spending time with my family.  It was awesome to see Jamie and Landi, Tijs, Linda and Mario and their family and of course everyone else.