Christmas Eve morning we went to Ihop for some yummy breakfast. I had green grinch pancakes and they were so good. Ihop has flavored syrups and I really love the pecan one, it is so good and I really wish I could find it to buy or at least learn how to make it.
We invited the Ricks family over for Christmas Eve dinner and it was so much fun. We had ham, funeral potatoes, rolls and Angela brought pretzel jello salad veggies and dip and cheesecake and chocolate cake for dessert. So much good food. The Ricks have a tradition that on Christmas Eve they do plate presents. It is a small present that gets put on their dinner plates and they get to open them before dinner. They surprised us and included us in this fun tradition, Kenedy and I got soft socks, Ryker got flavored milk straws, Kefford got a pez dispenser and Avy and Rylee got nail polish.
After dinner we visited while the kids put together a nativity. It was fun to have extra kids and they did a good job, it was a bit chaotic and badly put together but they tried. If we do this again in the future I think I will find a small script of the nativity online for the kids to use.
After they left the kids got to open their new pajamas and ornaments. Kenedy got a BYU Idaho ornament, Ryker got a drivers license, Avynlea got a cheerleader and Rylee got a violin.
After everyone was ready for bed we finished watching the Lord of the Rings which we had been watching throughout the day. It was a good day.