Christmas Eve

As is our tradition, we had Christmas Eve dinner with MawMaw Wilma and PawPaw Sherman.  After everyone ate, we opened presents and then shot fireworks.  MawMaw and PawPaw bought pom poms for all the girls and a Danica Patrick NASCAR car for Ben.

Aubrey and Olivia really liked sparklers.  Mollie was terrified of them after having burned her hand badly with one on the 4th of July.

For the first year in my memory (I don't know what year we started but we've done it for a long time), we did not stop at Marv and Yvonne's on our way home.  Mrs. Yvonne is in the nursing home and Mr. Marvin is in a rehab center.

Putting out cookies and milk for Santa.

John had secretly gotten Ben to practice reading the Christmas story but on Christmas Eve Ben was grouchy and only read a few lines.  John read the rest of the passage to us.