Family Christmas Parties

 We started off in Twin Falls this year with our family Christmas dinner at mom and dad's house. Brad was in charge of the planning this year and he did not disappoint! I was asked to make a cake for Jesus, so I brought a red velvet cake. Dinner was catered which was so nice for all the adults to not have to do or bring hardly anything so we could enjoy more time with each other. We had everyone there except Becky's family. We miss them so much! 

We had dinner, then the guessing of the pot (Lucy and Grady tied, so they had to battle it out with rock, paper, scissors. Lucy won). Then we played bingo with prizes, and then more games that Brad planned out. It was a hoot! It was also really loud. After games it was time for the spiritual portion. Brad and his girls did a presentation of Mary and played some clips from the prophet and apostles of the church. Then a song, family prayer, then gifts, and finally we sang Happy Birthday to Jesus at 10:45 pm. It was so much fun. We didn't even realize how late it was. 

Feeding a rat to Tyson's corn snake

We went to Uncle Loren's house last night for our Washburn family party. It was also catered and full of food, music, loud talking (haha!), Santa and Mrs. Claus, gifts, games, and more gifts. Aunt Debbie literally made like 5-6 dozen rolls just for Zander because that is his favorite thing about Christmas is Debbie's rolls. He probably ate a whole a dozen of them by himself.