Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a very busy day for us. Scott had decided that the kids and I were going to wake up with him at 6:30 in the morning and take a morning drive to Park City. He wanted to see all of the chimineys going with smoke, he says it looks like a Christmas Village. Then he wanted to have breakfast there. Well we all woke up and went, but it was freezing cold. The town did look like a Christmas Village with all of the chimineys smoking. When we had the morning experience we decided to eat breakfast at Denny's. Did you know there isn't any place to eat breakfast in Park City? We finally settled for McDonalds, which by the way is the most expensive McDonalds ever. After breakfast we decided to go downtown and look at Temple Square. Scott and I realized we had never taken our kids to the visitor center in Salt Lake. I have decided it is so much better to go Temple Square during the day time then at night. It is a lot warmer, and it isn't crowded at all. The last picture is of Carson looking at Jesus and listening to the story. We had attempted to get a family picture in front of Jesus. The kids had a lot of fun looking at all of the pictures from the Book of Mormon at the Center. After Temple Square we were going to go to the Downtown mall, but we found out it was closed. Scott and I decided to drop the kids over at my dad's while we finished last minute shopping, and have lunch without the kids. That evening we went to Scott's brother's house for our Traditional Christmas Eve dinner. Derek and Meredith made yummy soup in bread bowls. After dinner the kids went downstairs to perform the Nativity. Believe it or not these aren't even half of the cousins on Scott's side. Mary and Joseph is what the family likes to call kissing cousins. When they were younger they told everyone they were going to get married. After the wonderful program, the kids decided to do YMCA. We watched the Christmas story after the performance. Thanks to my brother in law, Derek, who is a Seminary principal the movie brought back memories of me watching that same movie. After the movie we had karoke with Sing Star. After the party we went back to my dad's house. Amber and Danny came and slept over with us. The kids opened their Christmas PaJamas and we put them to bed. We had a great Christmas Eve.