Christmas Parties #2

The next group of parties start with Grandma's Cookie party! We get together and bringing all types of recipes, dough, sprinkles, candy and frosting and spend the morning making and decorating until we end up with THIS:

I had enough for 15 plates of goodies including sugar cookies, candy cane cookies, oreo balls, popcorn balls, rice krispy treats, divinity... yum!

When we finish with the cookies, we head over to the Heritage Nursing Home to play Christmas songs with Grandma's piano students.

Lydia was the star for any song needing an angel and star :).

And, because the boys have been taking piano from Maama, they actually got to play in the concert this year! Weston played Jolly Old St. Nicholas.

And Hyrum played Joy to the World. Hyrum and I also did a duet of We Three Kings that sounded awesome, of course. I was proud of those boys!

Next up, Christmas Eve! We headed up to Riverton for lunch with the Walker clan...

This is Afton in her party clothes- I love the candy cane sweater. :)

After lunch we did the Nativity with everyone- Afton was the resident cheetah.

As much of a hassle it is to drive so far, it is so fun to be there with all the cousins I don't see so often. Afton and Leila even got to say hi for a minute.

Eva and KJ were Mary and Joseph and baby Sam starred as the Baby Jesus in his long red underwear...

Weston made a great wise man

and Hyrum was a grumpy shepherd. Cindy and Lydia were the beautiful angels in nightgowns!

Robby and Wendy were NOT beautiful in their ugly Christmas attire singing their strange and disturbing duets...

After watching some awesome old home videos from Grandpa and Grammie, we had to pack up and head down to the Largey party. We had some pizza, listened to Grandpa West's tape and talked about praying for our family and the things they are working for in their lives. Then we opened our Christmas jammies and headed for bed- because you know what tomorrow will bring!