Christmas Anticipation

For Christmas Eve we were blessed to have Great Grandma Hatch, Uncle Kent, and Darren and Loalee join us.  As per Hatch family tradition, only finger foods were served Christmas eve.   I loved watching the kids fill their plates with all kinds of yummy foods, all their favorites, and then not be able to finish because they were honestly too full.  A true feast!

Following dinner we had an only "slightly" irreverent reversion of the Nativity. 

Jotham, the narrator

Mark, the Shepard

Hyrum, King Hairy-d (Herod)

Uncle Kent, Jospeh  -- Hannah, Mary -- Hollie, the Angel

Gavin, one of the Kings

Grandpa, another one of the Kings

After each receiving their own Fontanini figurine to add to the nativity and opening their new Pajama's, the kids headed off to bed.  After a long day of sledding and playing in the snow with Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins, they were plumb tuckered out and didn't wake until 6:30am.  Nice!  Gavin woke up a little bit later.

at 6:30 am, all lined up and waiting to come upstairs to see what Santa brought

oh, the anticipation!

We had the most wonderful Christmas!  Full of wonderful family and happy kids, couldn't have felt more blessed.  Santa brought them all a set of Legos. Hannah enjoyed hers the most, with all those tiny pieces, we shouldn't have been surprised, but we were.  Their favorite gift overall surprised me though, kind of as an after thought, we'd found a super deal on a used air hockey table and put it in the play room.  Even Gavin begs to play, he'll pull up a stool and plays like the big kids. He and Hollie can have a pretty good little match.

That afternoon my family came to shoot shotguns and have a real "turkey" shoot out back by the would-be pond.  It was freezing.  Freezing, freezing cold and foggy.  So in case you were wondering, this is what fun looks like to the Robertson clan:

Brett was the winner of the Turkey, with 8 out of ten.  Yeah!  We have a lot of pretty good shots in the family and the competition was close at times.  And I think the weather played a factor.   Did I mention it was cold and foggy?