Why does this matter? Because it means I still get to sleep over at my parent's house on Christmas Eve, and that I still get presents from Santa! (Mom and Dad decided last year that as soon as you are married, you don't get a stocking or a present from Santa. We all still get our traditional book pile, and the $$ that they would have spend on your Santa gifts gets converted over to your present from Mom and Dad, so everything still works out to be equal, it's just the name on the name tags that changes.) This year (as with Thanksgiving) we decided to do a few things differently. Since Christmas Eve was on a Saturday we decided to go up north to find some snow to play in and then go out to lunch as a family.
More pictures and a detailed decription of the day are on my family's blog: http://mclaws1981.blogspot.com.
Christmas Eve we had a program and exchanged our sibling gifts like we normally do. Then everyone went home. Christmas morning my Mom, Dad, Faith, Julia, and I opened our Santa gifts, stockings, and miscelanious gifts from our grandparents. Then, since it was Sunday, we got ready for Church. I had been asked about a month ago to help with one of the choir numbers in my parent's ward, so I went to Sacrament Meeting with them. Mom is the choir pianist, my sisters both sang in the choir (Julia even had a solo!) and I sang and played my flute for one song. Since Dad is now the Bishop in their ward, he gave the closing talk. It was like the McLaws Family Christmas Show or something! But it was all very nice and I only messed up in one part on my flute accompaniment! Yea me!
After church we went back to Mom and Dad's and waited for everyone else to come over so we could open our book piles and our Mom and Dad presents. We had a very nice Christmas dinner of goose, potato casserole, steamed veggies, rice, and jello. Present opening went late (till 9pm!). Finally everyone went home and the house was quiet (a 2 year old and a 4 year old make a LOT of noise at Christmas!).
Monday we woke up and drove out to my Grandma and Grandpa McLaws' house in Gold Canyon for our extended family Christmas party. We had decided this year to do it the day after Christmas since everyone was off work and to make it a brunch. The food was yummy and the white elephant exchange was funny as usual.
All in all it was a great Christmas!
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