Christmas Eve 2014

This year’s Christmas Eve was hosted at the Brookses’ house.  I dare say it was one of the funnest.
Food was different.  Maybe that was part of it?  Our menu changed as new dietary restrictions have crept up amongst the kids.  It made Emily and I be more creative.
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Nigel offered up some happenin’ dance moves.
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While there was a full-on nail salon in Leah’s room.
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Stewart became close friends with Minky.
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Photobomb.  It’s what brothers do…
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We forgot to take our kids-only photo…
but I like the moms-and-kids ones…
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NINE kids!  And the boys are sorely outnumbered!!!
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Unposing was another story…
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Nigel looks perplexed!
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And the littlest ones enjoyed a pilfered candy cane!
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Then it was off to church where Marie and Tabitha decided to defect to sit with the Brookses. 
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For reasons I don’t understand, Emily refused to take Johanna.  Could it be she had a premonition that Hanny would roll all over the chairs and the floor and sing to herself while waiting to light that candle? 
It’s hard to be a four-year-old at Christmas.