Christmas Adam - December 23rd

We have a tradition of having all the grandchildren sleep over on Dec. 23rd. Parents get the night to do what ever they want. Some time some where the kids started calling it Christmas Adam (you know, Adam comes just before Eve) and it sort of stuck. This year we started early. Some of the kids went skiing with Opa, Kurt, Carlee and Jed- well, the Starites were already up there because they were camped out in Walter already. - but back to my story. We made individual pizza's and then after we ate, we went caroling to the neighbors with our neighbor gift. We are actually starting to say all the words to "We wish you a merry Christmas" and Jingle bells. That doesn't mean we actually stuck to the melody, however we did sing this year. Jake and Ellie were right in the middle of the pack. The neighbors (who were home) loved it. The oldest kids were super help with the littlest ones. Then we went to the gym to play floor hockey, red rover, duck duck goose, tag etc. We thought everyone would be so tired that they would drop off to sleep as soon as we rolled out the sleeping bags.

Wrong. How could I have thought that? What was I thinking? It's a good thing we started early because it took a little while- Jake got banished to a bed because he kept jumping onto Emma. Christy started snoring, so she got "voted off the island" until she woke up later (3:00 am) and was brought back into the sleeping throng. By 9:45 pm almost everyone was asleep -except for the littlest angel and the two sharing her bed- so she got put into her own bed and then everyone slept. Just like the angels that they are.

This was the next morning. They all had new PJ's to sleep in and posed- except for Carter and Tyler who were too busy playing the wii to come get their photo taken. I don't even think they heard the kids tell them to come get their picture taken. I'll add it if and when they ever get together with their matching pj's.
We love this group of kids. They make our hearts smile and keep us on our toes.
They are smart. They are happy. They are really good. They make good choices. They enjoy being together. We are really blessed.