We always start Christmas festivities by going to church for the Christmas Eve service. The music ministry did a fantastic job leading us in worship. The worship center was beautiful and the music was too! Nana and Mimi sat with us and we were surrounded by precious loved ones from our church family.
Then we went to Mom and Bill's and waited for everyone to get there. Brandon, my brother, was flying in and Brian went to the airport to get him. Bill sang at both church services. We were very excited to see Brandon for only the second time this year.
We ate our traditional Christmas Eve service-ham sandwiches (The best of the year!), chips, congealed salad, and our favorite-the shrimp tree!!
Then we opened gifts. I made Brandon a deck of cards of this year, since he had missed most everything that happened this year and his life from a newborn on up. He has been living in Miami with no family and no family pictures of anyone, so I think he was real excited to receive the gift.
Poor Brian~~He didn't get as many gifts as Brandon. :)
We always do family pictures around the tree.
Then we came home and got ready for bed, checked the Santa tracker, and headed to bed. It's the most exciting time of the year!!
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