Christmas Eve!

I hope you all had an amazing Christmas vacation! As you can see from my absence, I thoroughly enjoyed mine. It was jam packed with non stop fun! I was LOVING being home. I never feel as comfortable as I do there. The sun was out the entire time we were there, P-E-R-F-E-C-T weather, got to love San Diego!

Christmas Eve we have the tradition of going caroling to the neighbors and then doing a Family talent show. Last Christmas we had at my house, I had Trevor teach me a song on the guitar and surprised everyone with my new skills. This year I kind of forgot to plan something, and Trevor wouldn't let me tag along with the magic trick he did. Who knew Trevor had some pretty impressive magic tricks up his sleeve?! Love it. Anyways, I just ended up reading the history behind Nativities which I thought was pretty interesting.

We usually have a large dinner made up of appetizers (if that makes sense?) but this year my brother made dinner for his talent portion of the talent show. My brother Ben served a mission in Mexico, and he decided to cook us all a traditional Mexican meal, it was soooooooo yummy!

We grew up with the family tradition of opening one gift on Christmas Eve. That present was always new pajamas! This is a tradition I would love to continue on in my family, but we will probably wait for when we have kids, since Trevor and I don't really wear pajamas :) haha. Were underwear sleepers. 

But the last couple years of being married, I found I was missing opening a gift on Christmas Eve. So I decided I still wanted to open something on Christmas Eve. So since Trevor works out a lot, and I try to work out a lot haha I got us some new gym wear. I got some fun new running/yoga pants and Trevor got a couple work out shirts. I think this will be fun to do until we have kids and can start the pajama tradition with our family :)

The best part of the night was when my nephew opened up his Christmas Eve gift and burst into tears when he saw it was pajamas.... because "pajamas are borrrrring!" haha He cried for quit a while, and it was hilarious. Such a classic. Trevor didn't know what his Christmas Eve gift was and as a joke after opening up his, pretended he didn't like it (in attempts to be like Evan) and I almost fell for it too! Meanie.

After we ate some of the best tacos ever, went caroling to our neighbors, had the family talent show, opened up Christmas Eve gifts, and read the story of Christ's birth, and put the kiddos to bed...we opened up the games. I am not the biggest "game" person, but my family has introduced some really fun ones that I have found myself totally getting into. Needless to say, we played into the wee hours of the morning.... and I totally lost my voice! haha

 

 

 

 Sheba also decided to enjoy some Christmas Eve dinner :)

Oh and check out my parents Christmas Tree! If only you could see it in real life. It is a REAL tree, and it was the BIGGEST most FULL tree I have ever seen in someone's home.

It looked and smelled beautiful. It was just perfect!

 

 

Me and my older brother Ben had some fun playing around with our nephew's laser swords :) haha & to all a good night!