"And May All Your Christmases Be White"

I can't believe it has come and gone again. Gosh I love Christmas. This Christmas was a very memorable one!

On Christmas Eve night, it's a tradition for my family to come over to my house and eat dinner.  We had my grandmother's taco soup and ate cookies, wassail, and grape salad that my mom and I had made. After, we played family Dirty Santa. It's hilarious to see my 9 year-old brother and my 67 year-old grandfather get into knock down fights over this game. Afterwards, we all piled into the den and watched a Christmas movie and my grandparents spent the night with us, another tradition!

Christmas morning at the Bouchillon house started at 5:15 in the morning! We always wake up that early on Christmas morning ready and excited for the day! Everyone got everything that they wanted and my grandparents were just about to leave to go home to prepare Christmas lunch when we heard my grandfather say, "Ya'll come to the door!" Yes, friends, a WHITE CHRISTMAS! My first White Christmas ever. The snow was so beautiful. My family went outside and made a snowman in the front yard. Actually, I formed the snowman and my siblings gave me feed back. Gotta love 'em.

After our morning of fun, we headed over to my grandparents house to hang out with my entire family- another great tradition. We opened more presents and had Christmas lunch. After lunch my dad and I went on a run!

Christmas night is always a bummer. Everything is over and there's nowhere to go either because everything is closed.  We usually forget about Christmas night plans because we are always caught up in planning events for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I thought of this a few weeks before Christmas and my family planned to keep the fun going and we headed over to my grandmother's house again for dinner where she cooked homemade biscuits, breakfast casserole, and strawberry dessert. After, we just sat by the fire and all talked. Everyone was tired and we ended up going to bed at 9:00- a 17 hour day whew! The day after Christmas, my dad's family drove into town and came to our house for Christmas time. We had fun sitting around and they headed home later that afternoon with my brothers who are staying the week with them! 

It has been a great Christmas and a great reminder that Our Savior washed us white as snow!