Chrismas Eve

Loves to Grandma and Grandpa

Lego Star Wars on the Wii

Check out that intense face!

Sadie finally sat on Uncle Chad's lap because he fed her brownies and icecream.

Despite being sad that Emily, Tom, and their kids couldn't come due to the bad weather, we had a great Chrismas Eve. Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Lance and Chad made the drive from Portland. We had already had the traditional ham dinner in Portland, so I decided to try to make the Cafe Rio pork recipe I found online along with all the Mexican fixins'. Connor got to open one present and it was Lego Star Wars video game for the Wii. Much of the evening was spent playing that. I managed to get it turned off an we sang some Christmas songs and read the Chrismas story out of the Book of Mormon and Bible. It was a great evening. After putting brownies, milk, and carrotts for Santa and the reindeer, the kids were off to bed. With the motivation of Santa coming it was easy getting the kids to sleep. Ryan and I were up until about 3am helping Santa put Sadie's new kitchen together. Yikes! I have to say that the spirit of Christmas must have come over Ryan because even though there were hundreds of screws and lots of parts to put together not one swear word came out of his mouth1;).