The reason we can all fit in one house is mainly because all of Matt's family stays in ONE room. Kind of amazing. It was so great to have everyone there, and luckily, no one got sick... until the last day. It's kind of inevitable it seems, but at least it didn't get passed around to everyone while we were there. Mom actually allowed us to help with some of the dinners this time, so each family took a night to cook (although Mom really couldn't help herself and had to pitch in here and there). Jeff brought his smoker down as well as his cream can cooker. He smoked a delicious prime rib, and all 12 pounds of it were pretty much gone after one meal. The cream can cooker was new to me, and it also produced some good tastin' veggies and sausage. Well done, Jeff. You win.
The Palmers went for more of a feed-a-huge-crowd meal-- ham and corn chowder. Simple but still a hit! So were our aprons. James looks thrilled!
This is where James really shines. He's such a good helper when it comes to clean up!!!
There were lots of fun times behind the table with these 2. The dogs loved them.
On Christmas Eve we did some of our usual traditions. We acted out the Nativity, Santa came, and we opened up our Christmas jammies. Hazel loved being the donkey and loved that her jammies were red.
We're missing Miles because he was already in bed. My favorite part of this picture is Isaac in his jammies 2 sizes too small.
Hazel was pretty disinterested in the whole Christmas morning thing, but
that was fine with us. She had a great time watching everyone else!
The gum in the stocking was a big hit for her.
Here are some more random photos from the week-
Emily and I went to see Shellie, who wasn't feeling well. Her pregnancy has been really hard on her unfortunately. The exciting thing is that she's due only a few weeks after I am, and she's having a boy too!
The week of Christmas flew by too quickly, but we managed to have all the fun we could!
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