Our Family Christmas Day!!

We normally do our family day on New Years, but we have friends (!!!!) coming over New Years Eve/Day. So we did it on Christmas Eve.
Here are some pictures from opening gifts:

Victoria (as you can see from the shirt :))

Me (Alicia)

Moriah

Cassia

Ellia

Joel

We each drew names and had to buy a present for that person we drew. Victoria got Ellia; I got Moriah; Moriah got Cassia; Cassia got Joel; Ellia got Victoria and  Joel got me!

Here's what each of us got (Victoria's gifts to Joel's gifts or oldest-youngest):

Victoria gave Ellia a lego set, something she really wanted

I gave Moriah a doodle pad, chocolate with her middle name first letter on (since there wasn't an M), and a pencil case

Moriah gave Cassia a book of patterns to color, and candy (Lifesavers)

Cassia gave Joel a Lego Star Wars set and a Penguin chocolate

Ellia gave Victoria a can of beans (LOL), a notepad, pens, and something else that I don't remember

Joel (so sweetly) gave me a dress (!!!!) and M&Ms. I have been wearing a lot of dresses (never pants!) lately and Joel wanted to get me one! Mom said that at Value Village (we went there first) he was picking out dresses that I would never be allowed to wear! And then she helped him at Walmart to get one!! I love the dress though!!!

I came up with the idea to get Mom her favorite chocolates, Lindts (or Lindors actually), Cassia thought it was a great idea, so we both paid half! Mom ate them all between Dec. 24-25. She loves that type of chocolate!

We had fun on Christmas Eve morning! Then we ate snacky food the rest of the day, not junk food, though! We watched Lark Rise to Candleford, a new TV series that we've been watching on DVD, well, it's actually new to us, not on the TV. 

 On Christmas Day, while we had supper (in the basement), we watched Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, and then Dad told us to turn on Lark Rise to Candleford (BBC drama), since the cartoon was lame, to him though, I thought it kinda silly. Even though Dad doesn't exactly like Lark Rise to Candleford, he makes fun of it, which can get kinda annoying.

Although, he does like it better than When Calls the Hearts, which he made up his own title for that, and least, I think he does!

Have a great holiday season!!!!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!!

Alicia Marentette