Let the Christmas Parties Begin!

Despite the fact that we missed the Gillen Family Christmas party to attend Nathan's guitar recital, we still got in two Christmas parties! Papa craftily planned the Erickson party so that everyboday could spend the night at Grandma's house and help out with their ward party early in the morning. The Erickson party was blast and we even had some people who we rarely see including Aunt Janet and Uncle Dale and Aunt Christine.

Here we find Kallie.... probably tasting the fruits of her nose. Here we find Ben... probably the person Kallie learned it from.

Everybody watching the nose picking contest.

Ben is in the lead by a nose hair.

The next day we had to get up bright and early to start heading over to the church at 7:30 am. Well, I accidentally set my alarm for 6:30 pm. At about 7:15 I heard Mom talking to someone and figured that she gets up at 5:00 am so I probably have another 1 1/2 hours of sleep. Ten minutes later Katie asked what time it was. That got us moving.

We made it there and started cracking eggs. Even though you can crack eggs a lot faster with the one handed method, Uncle Terr still had to do it with two because then the egg gets on his hand... ewwwww. He also made sure that plenty of eggshell made its was into the mix to up the calcium (and bacteria) content. I wonder how I got sick on Sunday....

Momma and her princess.

A picture of Megan and Terr.

All the boys.

Grandma and her sources of joy.

Mom and Andrew.

Eva about to APE if she doesn't get a bottle NOW!

Okay, so aside from Grandma making 1,000 crepes (about 650 crepes too many) and sending us home with 40 pounds of leftover food, we also found out what motivates the kids. When Ben and Kallie were invited to go sing with the primary they weren't very excited. Even though they knew the song, they just kind of stood there. After the chorister told the kids that if they didn't sing louder Santa wouldn't come, you could here our two over all the others. Hmmmmm, too bad this only works at Christmas time.

A picture of Santa.

Amy and Alex figure that by dressing Eva in puke green, they can get away with changing her outfit less often...

After Ben learned he was getting coal, only Kallie and Andrew were left.