Christmas Eve with the Duerden Family
Christmas Eve was a ton of fun this year! We met at Robin's house. Everyone was there except Rylee's husband, Justin, and Jaxon. Cory cooked a wonderful turkey dinner, Rox made a yummy asparagus salad, Mark made homemade pies, and of course we had mom's traditional pistachio pudding salad.
After dinner we settled in for some fun games. We played "Draw Your Neighbor" and then we sang the "12 Days of Christmas" with family members acting out parts corresponding with their birthdays. (The pictures are blurry because I took them from video, but trust me it was hilarious!)
Rox brought a really fun game called "Right, Left, Center". Every one had 3 dollars in front of them and then passed them to the person on the right, to the person on the left, or to the center according to the roll of the dice. Even the kids were able to play and enjoy the game! We had a great time.
There was a winner on each of three tables. I won on the first (YEA FOR ME!). Taylor was the winner of the 2nd table. The 3rd table had quite the competition going and we weren't sure it Kenzie or Corbin would end up the winner. At the end Kenzie pull out the win.
We had JoCee's boyfriend, Justin, take some family pictures for us. Unfortunately they didn't turn out great (Tristan didn't even look forward on any of the pictures) but at least we will have a the picture for a good memory of a great party!
We then had the annual reading of the story of Christ's birth from the bible complete with the nativity figures on sticks held up by the kids. I had the honor of reading the scripture again this year. I sure do miss mom reading it.
We were having such a great time that we found that we stayed much longer than we had anticipated! We needed to rush home to get to bed before Santa arrived! I am so very blessed to have such a great family! I love them all so very much.
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