Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we always have dinner with our friends the Bosch's. We have been cutting our Christmas tree & having dinner on Christmas Eve with them every year since we moved to St Louis. Our tradition has turned into a superstition, Molly & I nearly had a malfunction when we went to Eckert's and they had no trees to cut!!! We started doing this when their girls were young and we had no children of our own. Now, their girls are grown and we have the little ones.

This year, we went to Molly & Tim's for dinner. They bought Ben & Sam Nerf guns for Christmas. They were an instant hit and were more popular with the adults than the children.
Yes, Sam & Megan are shooting at each other in the dining room amidst all the china
Megan & Maggie sitting at the table
At the end of the evening, the kids were just hanging out watching TV and lying all over each other
Poor Anne had her tonsils out on 12/21 and was feeling very under the weather when we saw her. Luckily, Ben was not his usual rambunctious self with her and he was happy just to lay with her. Our kids have a wonderful bond with each other, which is amazing because they see each other so rarely. We have many people in our lives that we really do need to see much more often