Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we went out to the Olsen's as we do every year. We always have such a fun time. This year the kids needed a little more entertaining as their cousin's were celebrating with their other family this year. Thank you Jody and Ryan for helping out with that:)

We visited Grampa Smith

We spent lots of time visiting

We had a fantastic turkey dinner

The boys doing the dishes (just the way it should be)

Gingerbread houses

We did the fish pond

The Nativity

New jam's that my MIL made

Then we headed home to hang our stockings. My brother has been driving our old van and they were coming home from Raymond and were having problems with it, so we told them (he was with my sister) that we'd meet him at Canadian Tire and pick my sister up (she was spending the night with us). They barely made it there. We told Cody to drive it home and we'd follow him up the westside hill. The van would only go like 10 km up the hill. It was losing power. We were so scared he would break down on the west side hill. Thankfully he made it home, but we didn't get home till late. Only Nate and Ty were awake to hang their stockings.