Sunday: Christmas Eve. I loved that we were able to go to Church, hear the lovely songs, and listen to the beautiful words spoken. We woke up and went to my mom and dads ward with a few of my siblings to listen to my dad in the choir. They sounded amazing and it was fun to be with family in church. Their church was at 9:00 so we had the whole day to wait around for the Christmas Eve party. Preston had made a video (a request from grandma) for the spiritual part of the night. We finished up our christmas advent puzzle and watched some christmas shows. Made some yummy food to take to grandmas and then headed out around 4:00. We ate a yummy dinner of prime rib and or chicken. With potatoes and all the good stuff. We were all stuffed and headed to the living room to listen to a program put together by mom and dad. Many years ago when the kids were just little we made a cd for them of us singing a few songs about christ. They had our voices singing and had pictures of the kids when they were little and one from now. The kids loved this and were so engaged. After we watched a little clip from Preston and him sharing his testimony. My parents shared their testimony of the birth of our savior and it was a beautiful lesson. After that we headed downstairs for our annual Christmas Eve games. Aunt Stephanie always goes all out and puts together the most epic night of fun. We were all divided into teams. I did get two of my kids on my team. (green team). Shaylee, Landon, Tanner, Jer Bear, tynlee and myself made up team green. Team orange consisted of: Lisa, Marci, Batman, Justin, Laik, and Addy. Team Yellow: was Devin, Jaden, Jessica, Katie, mom and amy. Team Pink: was Matt, Dean, Brecken, Chloee, Emily, and Kendyll. We were all so excited and ready to go. Our first game was to find our colored puzzle pieces inside the snow. with black out glasses on. Its a lot harder then it sounds. You first had to find a puzzle inside the snow and then had to hold it up and your team would yell if it was the right color or not. Everyone is yelling and it's hard to hear over everyone. Our team took 1st on that one due to orange team cheating so we were next up. The next game we played was a candy cane toss. We took dead last on that one. You had to hook the candy cane on your finger and then toss it to the other player on your team who also had to catch it on one finger. It was a tough one. The third game was a mad lib. The words are a jumbled mess and you read it fast and it will make a sentence they were all christmas songs. We did great, but so did everyone else so we were all pretty close on that game. We then found out depending on how we did we were allotted a certain amount of time in our next game.....
which was a MONEY BOOTH MACHINE. That my sister built with a little help from the jer. It was so cool and we all loved it. So each team was then told their total amount of time they each earned in the money booth based on the games we played downstairs. Orange and yellow teams got 30 seconds and then the pink and our team green got 25 seconds. Everyone got a turn from your team and then we added up all the money we got. There were a couple paper elves in the booth that you could grab and they were a surprise. We all went and everyone did pretty good. Aunt Katie was the best she grabbed the 100$ bill and some 50's she was killing it. At the end we ended up having so many elves so she let us choose which elf we wanted we went with elf number 3. No one else had got that one so we were excited to hear what it was. You added everyone's totals up from inside the money booth and divide it by 6 and that how much each individual won. Our team had 290 something dollars, BUT our elf #3 was a bank match elf the best you can get which meant we doubled our money. We went crazy. but we didn't even touch yellow teams total they ended with 500 and something and then got a 75 extra elf. they did amazing. Steph spent and put in so much time and thought into this night and it was so magical for everyone. Everyone was there all my brothers and sisters. The only one missing was Preston. We headed home after all the games ended and we got the kids in their christmas jammies and they passed out their secret santa to each other. They get the most excited about this then anything else. Brecken had Shaylee, Landon had Brecken, Shaylee had Addison and Addison had Landon. Everyone loved what they got and were so excited to get to sleep so santa would come. The boys slept upstairs. THey all ended up in Addison's room with the santa tracker on the computer. I heard many pee breaks, and doors opening and closing but finally it was a silent night.
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