This year's Evans Christmas Eve party was a little different, but just as magical. Christmas was on Sunday this year and the weather forecast was snow on Saturday, so we decided to have the Christmas Eve party on Friday instead. Friday morning I got a call from my Dad letting us know that Mom was in the hospital with really bad kidney stones and maybe we should cancel the party. When she came out of the pain enough to talk, she insisted that we still have the party because everything was already ready at the ranch. So we still had the party, but did all the nativity reenactment inside the house this year. I felt so bad for my mom. She is amazing as always thinking about everyone else except herself.
We had a delicious Mexican feast with my favorite taco meat. Then we did the nativity. Where I was sitting wasn't perfect for taking pictures of the angels and King Harod on the balcony, but I did get some great pictures of the others looking up. Timmy was a perfect shepherd and he took very good care of all his sheep, he listened closely to the angels when they were talking to him and even read the shepherds part for the first time.
Brian and cousins Jordan and Matthew often want to be the three wisemen. They are perfect. I loved hearing Brian sing all the songs this year. He is so awesome to sing them all with us!
This year my mom added Samuel the Lamanite into the program. I love the addition. I also love just watching these cute kids.
The end of the evening Pinata is always a hit! It is a treasure chest to represent the gifts the wisemen brought.
On real Christmas Eve we went to Mark's parent's house and had another delicious dinner and did a mini nativity program without costumes.
Mark taught cute dog cousin Hobbes a little lesson on being calm and we enjoyed petting him afterward. (We pet Hobbes, not Mark)
There was arm wrestling all around and then we went home to get the kids to bed for Christmas Sunday!
Sunday the boys woke bright and early and we went out to see and open presents!
Brian and Timmy often get the same things at Christmas time. They got jump ropes, razor scooters, fuzzy BYU blankets, BB Guns, and Kindle Fires!
Timmy got Brian a Nurf blaster and Brian got Timmy a Star Wars LEGO set.
Mark and the kids got me a guitar!
It was an amazing white Christmas when we woke up! There was so much snow!
After breakfast Mark and the boys went outside to clear what they could before church. Well, Mark cleared snow with his snow blower and the boys started building a fort.
I got ready for church and started some food for that night's Christmas dinner. We had one hour of church. It was so nice to go and take the sacrament and to celebrate Christ's birth on Christmas day. I loved it!
When we got home we went outside to clear some more snow, feed the animals and enjoy our fluffy white Christmas present! Mark got out the tractor and used that to pile snow. The boys were in Heaven! They built three different forts in those piles. It was the best Christmas present they could have asked for!
We had to pull everyone away from the snow to go to Nai Nai's house for Christmas dinner. The arm wrestling started up immediately after arriving.
We had a wonderful Christmas dinner with all the family! It was delicious and fun and then we went home for a good night's rest. It was an incredible Christmas weekend!
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