Christmas Eve

We had a great Christmas Eve.  We of course had our Korean dinner which we do every year and it was delicious as usual.  Alan always does amazing!  He added one new dish this year, chapchae.  It was great addition.  We invited the Okuda's, Brandy, Paul and the missionaries.

We love the Okuda's.  They are a very special family and we are blessed to call them friends.  Olivia especially loves Shari.

Brandy came from New York.  Just wouldn't be Christmas Eve without her.

Elder Bassett and Elder Owen (they are both from Idaho),  Paul (JJ and the girls were in Hawaii with her family).

I made a yummy Red Velvet cheesecake.

Our little shephards and Livy was Mary.

The boys in their Christmas Eve pj's

The girls

A couple of years ago Jonathan started a tradition that he and Alan pose like this for a picture every Christmas Eve.  He never forgets.

The kids got these sock monkeys from our good friends the Oxfords.  Sister Oxfords makes them.  We let the open them on Christmas Eve so they could sleep with them and they were so excited- one to get to open a present on Christmas Eve that is not pjs and two because they loved them so much.

They all fell asleep cuddling them.