Baking and last minute shopping filled the beginning of the day, but the celebrating started in the afternoon. We invited Jenn's brother, Kenneth (who was without a family this Christmas), to the Burningham Christmas Eve party. As usual, we ate a big feast, then the grandkids (my nieces and nephews) "acted" out the nativity while the fathers narrated.
Baby Jesus was played by a chubby, crying Rylie in a pink vest. (It was very cute.) Meanwhile, Boston ate one of the shepherd's candy canes, and Jordan did his best to make it look like he had chest hair coming out of his costume. Yes, it gets more and more sacrilegious every year, but it's fun, and the narration is very touching.
After that, the grandkids exchanged gifts to each other, and the three of us left early to videochat with the Kenworthys in Colorado.
I set up the computer in the living room so they could see our Christmas tree and such, but the videochat didn't quite work out. We could see them, but not hear them, and they couldn't see or hear us. So we set the cell on speakerphone to talk with each other, and had them keep the webcam on so Ken could watch Noah open the gift Ken got for him. And, because he was right there, we got to see Ken open our present to him.
We also opened the presents from the Kenworthys to us. Jenn's mom crocheted a Minnie Mouse to go with the Mickey she made last year, as well as a hat for Jenn, and Mario Mushrooms for me. Karen is amazing with her crochet. We also got a book written by Jenn's dad about the early parts of his life. Jenn has read the whole thing already, and read most of it out loud to me. It is a very, very good book. We are looking forward to future volumes.
Keeping with the Kenworthy's tradition, we went out to look at Christmas lights. "The window" that the Kenworthys frequently visited didn't have a display this year. But while Ken guided us through some neighborhoods where his wealthy friends live, we stumbled upon the best Christmas lights display EVER!
It's hard to truly describe, but I'll try. They had a whole bunch of trees lit up, and a lot of other decorations. It looked really nice on its own, but they had it all set to music, which they broadcast through the radio. I had heard of people doing this before, but not like this. Each individual tree and decoration was separated from the rest. So each tree turned on and off, or changed color in sequence to the beat of the music. It sounds simple, but it wasn't. It reminded me of a Disneyland fireworks display, it was so elaborate.
Then we took Ken back to Grandma's house, and Jenn and I went home, where we exchanged Christmas Eve gifts. I got a Mario pajama set, which you will see in the pictures I post for Christmas morning. And I got Jenn a whole bunch of cute socks, which she picked out. Neither of us were surprised with our Christmas Eve gifts. We save the surprises for Christmas morning.
Here's us at the Christmas Eve dinner, the nativity, and trying to get the webcam to work. (Which I did fix soon after the videochat was over... Oh well.)
1 comment:
I love it! Thanks for the pictures. Even though I knew most of this, it's fun to read about it and recall the fun moments we got to play in it.
It was a bit disappointing that we weren't able to see you on the chat, but it was still great to share the moment with you. Thanks for helping us to share it with Ken too. You really helped make it special for him.
Thanks also for the compliment about the crocheting. I enjoy it.
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