Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Ben decided to take advantage of the Brighton Ski Resort special--dress like Santa and ski for free.

That's not the only Santa we saw at our house. A miniature version of Santa Claus appeared on our front porch right in the middle of my side of the family's annual Christmas Eve dinner party.

Klarissa decided to surprise Abe (and us) with a trip to Utah for Christmas.

They got here just in time for the Christmas program. Glen got busy getting everyone to write down their name if they had something to contribute to the program.

  When I went to get the children from the basement, this is what they were doing.

 And this little guy was off doing his own thing.

Up first was the Excell family. They posed for a family photo when they first arrived and now I wish everyone had posed for individual family photos. Cute!!

 Sarah made a Christmas music video featuring Eli and Carson and it was adorable.

A duet of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" consisted of Abe singing the first part of each line with Newland chiming in on the last word.

Rachel played a piano solo.

Brooke showed her stop animation video which she has won awards for at the school Reflections contest.

Preston also entered the Reflections contest at his school with an awesome poem he had written. He was too shy to read it, so Andy read it for him.

Nani did her version of a musical original poem with a unique instrument constructed out of cardboard and elastic bands.

Zack read a story about a bell without a clapper.

Speaking of bells...the children loved it when they were invited to ring their bells while singing "Jingle Bells."

Looks like little Madison is not going to be the baby of the group for long.

Sarah is having a baby in March. Klarissa is having a baby in April. And Kaelyn announced she is having a baby in May.

Well enough of the Christmas Eve celebration! It was time for everyone to go home and get to bed so Santa could come.