Christmas Eve....

These posts are long overdue. Sorry for the delay!

We do Christmas Eve every year with Poppy Keith, Grammy Wilma and the rest of my mom's side of the family. The tradition is Grammy makes homemade clam chowder and everyone brings appetizers and some dessert and we munch all evening. It is SOO good. The last few years have been relatively quiet as the "kids" are all grown up and graduated and we are patient when it comes to opening presents. Well, the next generation (Aniston) is finally at the point where she understands what presents are and that the paper needs to come off them. So, it was a little more rushed this year in that she was making sure people were all eating a little faster so we could get to presents sooner.

Aniston and Poppy playing with the marbles to pass the time until presents.

Aniston playing with the train set and Poppy's train whistle.

Trying on her new snowsuit. Unfortunately we have had NO snow so the pants haven't been used yet.

Poppy helping her zip.

Ta da!

What is it Aniston?

A Fancy Fancy (Nancy) doll!

Auntie Lysha and Aunt Alison.

Grammy and Aunt Alison.

We had such a great evening. We have started doing Christmas morning at our house and it works out great that Aniston gets to come upstairs in the morning and see that Santa has been to the house and there are lots of presents under our tree. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get pictures as again, the paper was a flyin'.