Wow - Christmas Day is Really Here!!!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was an amazing day.  We made sugar and gingerbread cookies the night before so we would have some to leave out for SANTA!

 The kids made name place tags for all of the cousins!

 One of my favorite parts of Christmas is reading all of the Christmas Cards from my good friends and family!

 I absolutely LOVE the way our home looks at Christmas time.  Can I please leave all of this stuff up all year long???  :)  I even have a mistletoe "kissing crystal" hanging from the chandelier.  Can you see it?

 Kohler helped me make our famous honey-pomegranite bbq sauce wings.

 Again . . . the wings were a HIT!

 McKenna and Kelsey

 Rylie and Spencer

 Keegan!

 Sydne and Kohler

 Sweet Maya Claire

 Hailey Girl!

 Little Eden :)

 Even Nate was digging those wings!

 Hailey played "Rudolph" and "Silent Night" all by herself.  She learned it by using three chords from her music class.  Then, I showed her how to use those chords to play a lot of songs.  She figured out those two Christmas Carols on her own!  It was awesome!

 Spencer played two songs and did such a great job!  He has improved a ton since last year.  I am super proud of him.

 Kelsey played her recital pieces too.  She also did a beautiful job. 

 Maya forgot her piano book - but I let her borrow one of our old piano books that had a slightly different arrangement and she sightread it perfectly!  It was awesome!

 I even played the duet part with her!

 Kelsey brought out her violin and Sydne played the guitar.  

 What's a Christmas without the traditional Marshall Family Bells!!!

 Nice new PJ's - Rylie!

 To end the night, Tom read the kids "I Believe in Santa Claus."  It is such a nice story about how Santa is like Jesus Christ and then Tom bore his testimony about the Savior.  It was a perfect way to end our evening.