Christmas Eve

 Christmas Eve was...a little crazy for our family. :)  Michael made gnocchi es which are an Asay family tradition on Christmas Eve. They turned out great.  We kept forgetting stuff for it though and had to take a couple last minute trips.  Its nice to have so many stores close by by kind of a double edged sword because if you remember something at the last minute thats not a necessity but something just want, you just go get it anyway and stand in line for WAY too long whereas if we were in Lovell we'd just deal with it.  I decided at the last minute to take some Christmas cookies out to a couple families in our ward that had brought treats to us so that was a little messy and crazy but the kids had fun.

 We went to Clemows for treats and to do the nativity.  They have 3 kids like us but theirs are even younger so it makes for an interesting get together. :)  We love Clemows and are grateful for their friendship

 After Clemows we opened Christmas PJs which was so much more fun this year.  Last year I told the kids on our way home from Asays Christmas Eve that they were going to get to open 1 present that night (I didn't include the fact that they would be PJS).  So when Stetson opened his present last year and discovered it was clothes and not a toy, he was less than impressed and threw them on the floor.  Michael had to work last year, too so it made it even less fun, but this year all 3 kids were thrilled about their PJS.  Yay.

 Michael was not a happy camper when he opened the box for Janelle's kitchen and discovered a gazillion parts/steps to putting it together.  Whoops.  We stayed up later that night than we've ever had to on Christmas Eve but it turned out super cute though and Janelle loves it.

Merry Christmas!