Christmas Eve at the Bruces

Every year we spend Christmas Eve at the Bruce's.  We started with a delicious dinner - chicken cordon bleu (chik-fil-a chicken nuggets for the kids), baked potatoes, salad and more.  After dinner, there was a surprise in the basement for all of the kids.  Wiggle cars!  There used to only be a few for the kids to play with, but now they all have their own.  While the kids played in the basement, we cleaned up dinner and put away the extra table and chairs.  Then the kids had a program with Maddy and Lauren playing the piano and singing, and then all of the kids singing.  Keegan played his recorder and then Chandler read a Christmas book.  Then the grandkids exchanged presents.  Then they all got to open presents from grandma - PJ's and Zhu Zhu pets!  Then all of the kids changed into their PJ's and had a Zhu Zhu pet war on the kitchen floor.  Then we gave our gifts to Rick and Myrna.  We gave Myrna cash to buy books for her new Kindle.  Bart gave Rick some miscellaneous things that he knew he would like.  Then we had a dart gun fight with the kids and adults shooting darts all over the living room and kitchen.  It was crazy!  Lastly, we played the present game with the adults.  We brought a Bath and Body Works gift pack in a nice tote bag thing and a DVD/popcorn bowl pack.  We won a nice skillet and a perplexus.  Then finally it was time to go home.  It was a great night!