Today was our first family celebration for Christmas this year. We celebrated with Grandma Sue and Grandpa Gary today. The main reason for the early celebration is because our family has enjoyed Christmas Eve with my mom the past 3 years (while they were in the Philippines with Carol and Rylee). And we really enjoy Christmas morning with just our crew. So I asked her to celebrate Christmas with them Christmas evening, but she was afraid the kids would be too tired and not excited about her presents. So we moved it to the Sunday before. We started the day with a Christmas service and then headed over to their house for dinner, gifts, and games. Because the Cordovas planned on going to their house all of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, they did not come to our celebration. So it was just our crew and the grandparents.
We enjoyed marinated Pork chops, baked potatoes, green bean casserole, dinner rolls, strawberry casserole, and Oreo pie. It was delicious. Then we opened gifts, which the kids LOVED! I can understand why she wanted them to be there first because their reactions to a few of the gifts was priceless. Then we played a favorite game - the name game. We decided to try to teach the kids how to play Spoons after that game. Man, was that a disaster! Each boy cried at least four time during the game. We knew right away that who ever did not get the spoon at the end of the hand, would have some kind of breakdown. It was crazy! We are going to be working on good sportmanship this next year. Overall, this Christmas celebration was very memorable!
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