An Adams Family Christmas Eve
The Adams family has a few wonderful Christmas traditions that I got to experience first hand this year. The first began on the evening of the 23rd of December when the extended Adam's fam get together for a progressive dinner starting with appetizers at one house, salad at the next, main course at another and finishing up with desert and a white elephant at the final home. Lucky that 4 out of 6 of the Alan's family still live in Parowan, allowing so many of us to be able to meet together.
The food was all delicious and the company was wonderful, but I found myself feeling a little bit meepy that evening; missing the Bushbunch, missing Logan, missing my friends and all my Christmas memories at home. Once we hit Uncle Kelby's and Aunt Alice's house for the white elephant I couldn't help but cheer up watching how excited all the nieces and nephews were for their presents!
We had to return to St. George for work, but were back again the next evening for Christmas Eve with the Urie side of the family in Cedar City. We had a lovely dinner followed by a nativity put on by the grandbabies while Luke 2 was read by Grandpa "Pug" Urie.
Look how precious that Mary and Joseph are! I loved watching Lyndee (my sister-in-law Catherine's sweet daughter) staring at the big kids in awe - little cutie! After the nativity, there was a Christmas talent show that nearly everyone participated in, followed by the grand finale: a visit from SANTA! Alan dressed up as Santa in a fabulous cherry red suit with Brett acted as his mullet-headed Elf and helped to hand out all the presents.
As you can guess, they turned out to be jammies, which I am now a huge fan of as a Christmas Eve gift as we never did that in the Bush family! Definitely a nice addition. The rest of the evening was spent back in Parowan gathered around the glow of the tree, reading about everyone's favorite Christmas memories and basking in the joy that is family!
The food was all delicious and the company was wonderful, but I found myself feeling a little bit meepy that evening; missing the Bushbunch, missing Logan, missing my friends and all my Christmas memories at home. Once we hit Uncle Kelby's and Aunt Alice's house for the white elephant I couldn't help but cheer up watching how excited all the nieces and nephews were for their presents!We had to return to St. George for work, but were back again the next evening for Christmas Eve with the Urie side of the family in Cedar City. We had a lovely dinner followed by a nativity put on by the grandbabies while Luke 2 was read by Grandpa "Pug" Urie.
Look how precious that Mary and Joseph are! I loved watching Lyndee (my sister-in-law Catherine's sweet daughter) staring at the big kids in awe - little cutie! After the nativity, there was a Christmas talent show that nearly everyone participated in, followed by the grand finale: a visit from SANTA! Alan dressed up as Santa in a fabulous cherry red suit with Brett acted as his mullet-headed Elf and helped to hand out all the presents.
As you can guess, they turned out to be jammies, which I am now a huge fan of as a Christmas Eve gift as we never did that in the Bush family! Definitely a nice addition. The rest of the evening was spent back in Parowan gathered around the glow of the tree, reading about everyone's favorite Christmas memories and basking in the joy that is family!
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