Christmas Eve

I love Christmas Eve.  I love the anticipation of the kids and the feeling of excitement all day.  This year my girls were with their dad during the day so Jeff and I decided to go skiing with Chase.  We are so lucky to have him here from school.  He couldn’t wait to hit the Beav!  On our 3rd run Chase hit a “box” a “flat box” (snowboarder terms) and feel very strangely on his head.  As soon as he fell I said to Jeff “that is not going to turn out well.”  Sure enough Chase had a concussion.  Or in his words he was Concussed!  We took him to the ski patrol shack and he got checked out.  It was clear he had hit his head HARD.  Mostly evidenced by him asking the same 3 questions in the same sequence over and over about 100 times!  Also evidenced by the fact that he had no memory of the day and didn’t know where he was. 

Bless his heart!  He was so frustrated that he really had NO CLUE what had happened.  Everything turned out well and by the next day he was feeling much better.  We knew we were in trouble when he had no idea it was Christmas Eve.  In fact when we told him he faithfully denied it!  So funny!!  So..  we called it quits early and went home.  The great news was…  I got a well deserved Christmas Eve nap! 

On Christmas Eve we went to my mom’s house for the usual and SO FUN party.  The kids did the nativity, we ate lots and Santa came.

We missed Mitchy!!  As usual Santa delivered.  Look at Santa with the new babies!  What a blessing to have MaeLee and Kyson this year!  They are both SO sweet!

He have all of the kids Hex bugs which they loved.

After Santa the kids did the Nativity!  It is always so tender!  It was Kendall’s turn to be Mary this year and Luke was Joseph. 

The top left photo is the mayhem getting ready!  Every year someone refuses, someone cries and there are several “this is lame.”  However they all feel the spirit of the nativity and the entire family looks forward to this part of Christmas Eve! This was the first year that Hunter was the narrator.

Hayden gave me this “Barney” video.  He brought it in on this dolly.  He totally cracks me up.  Barney is a nickname I got skiing and it will never die!  Here are a few more photos from the evening!