The Hendricksen's: Christmas Eve

Friday, January 08, 2010

Christmas Eve

I love Christmas Eve. My very favorite tradition is getting to go to Grandma Haywards house for dinner! I love getting together with my kooky family!! I was sad that Mom, Dad and Todd couldn't be there this year! They were missed!!!
My favorite photos of the night were when we got a picture of each kid with the coal.

Brinley was SUUUURE this was going to jinx her and she was going to get a lump of coal for Christmas so this face is alllllll her! Cracks me up whenever I see it. We get this face a lot!

After that we came home to open PJ's and blankets and read the "Christmas Story" (Luke 2) And then off to bed!! Or that was the plan. The girls had a really hard time falling asleep. Mom and Dad were up until 3 waiting for Santa.

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