Christmas Eve

I love our Christmas Eve traditions, but most of them don't start until the evening. This year, like in previous years, we started the day by opening up our stockings. 

Then around lunch time, we headed to Top Golf. Luckily, our membership saved us a 2-hour wait. Maybe that membership was worth it after all. We only waited 10 minutes, and we played games on the XBOX during that time. 

We just kind of hung out at home after that, and I talked to my parents, Fred, Marie, Luc, Aria, and Marine, too. Marine is over there right now to celebrate the holidays with them. 

After we dropped off the Christmas gifts to Paul and his family, we came home to prep up dinner- a raclette. It's one of our favorite meals, although definitely not the healthiest.

Then we played our annual Minute-to-Win-it games, the Christmas edition. We knocked over cups using an ornament attached to a belt, we moved cottonballs (snowballs) from one plate to another using our Vaseline-covered noses, we stacked up cups to form a pyramid (Christmas tree), we shook our bums to get the jingle bells out of the tissue box that was attached to the small of our backs, we tossed jingle bells into plates, we hung candy canes onto a string using only our mouths, we dug into a pile of whipped cream to find the candy cane using our face, etc. It was lots and lots of laughs! That night, I let the kids sleep by the Christmas tree, except Alexis, because I knew she would keep the other kids up. The next night, she totally sneaked out of her bed and slept under the Christmas tree. And as i had predicted, she kept the other kids up. Little stinker...