Christmas Eve

Our Beautiful pies with cute cut out crust!

This year we had the blessing of having Zeb's Mom and some of his siblings here for Christmas. On Christmas Eve we had traditional Tamales, rice, beans, doughnuts and Pumpkin Pie. I love to make food from scratch and because my mother in law was here, we did. The house was humid and warm all day due to the tamales steaming and the pumpkin cooking. For those of you who know how cold it is in Utah, that was a welcome change. But it was so worth it. I was to tired and busy to take pictures of our beautiful Tamales and doughnuts. But I did take a picture of the beautiful pies. On Christmas eve we also had Zeb's Uncle Waldo, Aunt Becky and 7 extra cousins for dinner, add that to the 9 people staying at the house and we were full to the brim. But what a great way to celebrate Christmas. Here are some pictures I did manage to shoot off....

Odelia Not listening to the story, instead she is pretending to be a cat.

Kaity, Reta & Harrington Listening to the Christmas story.

Aaron listening well

Zeb Reading, doing a quick non-monotone job.

Cookies made for Santa

And then it was off to bed with the children.... they waited for Santa to come.