Christmas Eve

I'm slowly getting caught up.

Every Christmas Eve, we get together for one of our favorite meals:

all appetizers and desserts, a few musical numbers and our oftentimes very irreverent rendition

of the Christmas Story.

This year (as always), Byron was the donkey, Kean was Baby Jesus (who wouldn't stay put), my tom-boy niece,

Morgan was Joseph and............

Derek, my nephew was Mary.

All three of my girls were wrangling over who would get to be Mary

so Derek put an end to it and said it was his turn.

We loved it!

 Holland, my niece Lindsey and Greer were the 3 Wise Women.

 Katie was the angel and Reese was her "little" angel.

Our very talented cast....

 The other big excitement of the evening is the opening of the cousins' Christmas presents

and the traditional opening of Grammy's homemade pajama bottoms for each of the kids.