This year for Christmas my side of the family got together on Christmas Eve, so that we could go to Matt's family on Christmas Day. (It was getting too hard to try and fit all the family in on one day) We got together about 3:00 and had potato bacon soup in bread bowls, chicken taquitos and homemade salsa, spinach salad with poppyseed dressing, veggie tray and dip and eclair cake for dessert. We were all stuffed. After our early dinner we opened presents. Parker and Paige were the designated gift organizers and separated all the gifts into piles according to who they were for. That kept them entertained for a little while. No matter what we say about cutting back and not doing as much, we still seem to have pretty big stacks of presents to open. It takes quite a while to get through them all when we are watching each person open gifts. But it is so fun. This year I tried to minimize my picture taking so that I wouldn't have 500 pictures of just Christmas (for some reason I hate scrapbooking about Christmas, probably because of the overwhelming amount of pictures) So I took a few pictures of the kid opening gifts and a picture of them by their "Pile" before they oepened and after they opened. We all got spoiled and received so many wonderful things. We have such a great family and wonderful parents that take good care of us. By the time we opened everything it was getting to be the kids bedtime and we wanted them to go to sleep early so Santa could come so we didn't end up playing any games, they will have to wait until next time we get together.
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