Christmas Eve at the Thurston's

 We had a lot of fun at gma and gpa house on Christmas Eve.  The kids got to dress up and do the story of Christ's birth.  Lila was a cute angel for about 2 seconds before ripping the costume off. 

 We had a great dinner with lots of yummy food.  After the nativity story Uncle Dallin read the kids a cute Christmas story "Twas the night before Christmas" is the tradition but the book he read was that story with a twist and it was really cute.

 The kids got to each pick a cousin to buy a present for. I think they all had fun shopping for their cousins and they all got to open them at the same time.  Then we played the "right/left" game and the kids got
to open up their present from gpa & gma.

 They all got jean blankets BYU style with their names embroidered on the edge. They were really cute and the kids all love them. I loved Brig in the picture below cuddling up with his newly unwrapped blanket. The adults had a fun white elephant exchange too, we got rid of the dreaded singing cowboy and the autographed picture of chad to Dallin this year and we have been warned to "beware" of next year!



 After all the goodies we could eat we headed over to the temple lights.  Jordan Bluth was the guest singer for the program and so it was supper crowded.  We like him in the forgotten Carols that he does every year so it was kind of neat to see him singing at the temple although I could have done with out the huge crowd.  After the temple the kids got to open up their pj's and then we headed home so Santa could come.