Here’s everyone gathering and acting crazy:
After dinner, we head downstairs to start the big Christmas stuff. We start out with watching Luke II, it’s a great movie.
Then each of the grandkids get to open their jammies from Grandma and Grandpa. After they open them, they all put them on so we can take a group picture. It’s madness now that there are 14 of them!
Once we take a million pictures of the kids we then read a Christmas story that one of us picks out, we rotate each year.
After all that the kids get another (!) present from Grandma and Grandpa, this time it’s a little more fun than just jammies.
After we get the kids somewhat occupied with gifts we then hand out our sibling gifts and take turns opening them. This year Chris got the Family Yahtzee game from us. They seemed to like it!
Usually we’re nice enough to get mom and dad some gifts. Mom is holding a framed picture of all her kids that we took at the sibling party, and the one not framed is from the sibling party I wasn’t able to attend, but Joe photoshoped my head in there under Ben’s arm; it’s fantastic.
Becky also compiled an album of all group pictures of the grandkids throughout the years, and of course there’s plenty of space for all the Christmases to come!
The sisters!
When mom and dad went to Israel & Egypt they bought these pictures painted on parchment paper. Mom surprised dad by having them framed.
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