Christmas Eve was a little different this year, since my parents are currently serving a mission in Rwanda, Africa, and my little brother is serving a mission in Lyon, France for our church. We still met at my parents house, where my sister currently lives and she was such a wonderful host. We had the traditional talent show where my boys all played the piano and Palmer counted to 20 in French in honor of my cute brother. I didn't get pictures, for some reason this has not been the year of pictures. We talked about the "tender mercies" of Heavenly Father that have been in each of our lives and we realized that our family has truly been blessed so much.
After that we had the traditional family Christmas present exchange. I love this part of the night (and so do the kids).
Each person has another person's name. The siblings and in-laws all trade names, and the grand kids all exchange names. I love that it gives them a chance to think about someone in our family and usually it isn't a person that they play with often.
After the cousin gift exchange all of the families gave their kids Christmas pajamas.
We sure missed our missionaries, but it was so much fun being together as a family!
This is the picture of their Christmas church clothes. They looked pretty handsome :)
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