Christmas Eve After Mass

Uncle Eric was very determined to make a pie-cake-in, a pie baked in a pie, as the name suggests. Alex was intrigued with this idea and so assisted his uncle in this amazing dessert. (This particular picture actually happened before Christmas Eve.) More to come on this later.

After Mass it has been our tradition for our children to exchange the gifts they got for each other, receive a small gift from Randy and I, and give a small gift to Grandma Steffen. In addition to this it has now grown into exchanging gifts with the Shook cousins with a crowd of aunt and uncles. It's a crazy night filled with lots of Christmas excitement!

Sophia with her gift from Henry.

Lukey with his dinosaur head he got and immediately started chasing people with.

Julia using her water coloring book. And look it's Mrs. Claus by Madison and Aunt Audrey! We also would hate to forget this was the Christmas Eve Julia got the most annoying Christmas gift, a microphone that sounded like Rudolph's glowing noise, loudly. The toy was quickly banned to the basement.

Sophia with Randy and the homemade ornament she made him!

Henry's tie-fighter Lego set he got that night.

Jack and his beautiful quilt his mom made him.

Max loving the cheese balls Alex got him.

Luke and Julia fishing.

Somehow these last two pictures got flip-flopped and I'm not sure how to switch them. Anyway this is suppose to show what the inside of the pie-cake-in looks like,( but doesn't really do a good job doing that).

 

Uncle Eric cuts the dessert of all desserts, to share with everyone. Will it become a Christmas tradition? There is talk of a goat-camel-in-elephant or something, but where would we find a big enough oven?