Christmas Eve

We had a wonderful Christmas and are so thankful for family and for celebrating Christ's birth. We always spend Christmas at my grandpa's house and this year we were greeted by this:
He was standing in his street like this. If you know my grandpa, you know how funny he is and how he loves to play tricks. He told us, "I've read some magazines and the preppy look is out, and the trailer trash look is in." We were all dying laughing. Behind him is the "demerit" list he made. The demerit list started in New York when we said we have better stop asking up if he was warm enough. He said that if we kept asking, we would get demerits and not be invited back to New York next year. It then continued through Christmas. It's wonderful to have such a fun grandpa.

All the girls had to get a picture with him.
On Christmas Eve we always go to church and then we come home and cook Mexican food.
This year my mom had all the girls matching shirts. We wore them all day on Christmas Eve. At the mall, one lady said, "Boy I've seen a lot of people with those shirts on today." I guess she had just seen all the girls at different places in the mall.
After we read the a book about the Christmas story with the girls, we put the girls to bed. Emma Catherine said that she was going to sleep completely under the covers so Santa wouldn't see her and that he would be sure to come. Once we were sure they were asleep Ryan finished putting together the girls' big present.