Kartyor: Merry Christmas

On Christmas morning we all sing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" to wake mom and dad up. Jared and I stayed at my sister Jenny's house. She has five kids and we have four so it was a very full house, but tons of fun. At 7am the kids came and sang to us to wake us up and we got ready to go over to my parents house to see if Santa had come. When we got there the kids sang to wake up Grandma and Grandpa. We have a tradition that we don't get to see the tree until Grandpa has looked to see if Santa has come. There was a mad dash when they finally got to go into the room.

There were my family with the four kids, my sister Jenny's family with her five kids, and my sister Liz with her three kids. We were only missing my sister Kathy and her two kids. We were really sad that she couldn't make it. The weather was just too bad. The kids had a blast and it was a free for all on presents.
The night before Christmas the kids got to open one present. My mom had made pillowcases for all of the kids. They were so excited and got to sleep on them that night.

Here are all the kids opening their pillow cases (the babies got blankets)

Another fun tradition that we have is doing the nativity while the oldest male father reads the story from the scriptures. We had all of my mom's family over for this. This year was Emily's year to be Mary and then this is my cousin's son who got to be Joseph.

This was before the nativity. We do a program and everybody has to perform. While this was going on both Benjamin and Faith (Liz's little girl) wanted to sit on my lap. My sister, Jenny, is holding her new baby Jace who is only a month old. Ben and Faith are two weeks apart. Faith was already one and Ben was almost one. We made all the kids sit on the floor because there were not enough seats. :)