Christmas Eve

 Christmas Eve 2025 - a nice drive to Denver through all the traffic and we arrived at Jessi's early afternoon - it was fun to catch up with Evan who was home from college!

We ate a very early dinner of lasagna soup and homemade bread - excellent!  And then quickly cleaned up to go to the 5:00 church service!  Gwyn was still recuperating from being sick and was running a slight fever so Glenn stayed home with her and the rest of us went to church!

It was a wonderful Christmas Eve Service and I sure enjoyed singing the traditional carols and participating in the candlelight song at the end - that's what Christmas is all about!

And next up back at the house was game night!  OH MY GOSH - Jessi had some great ones planned!!

The first game she divided us into 3 teams and I was with Kenzie, Glenn with Evan and Gary with Gwyn - Jessi stayed back to clean the kitchen!

She gave us a piece of paper and we were to either walk or drive in the neighborhood and take pictures of ourselves WITH the items listed!!  Here's the list!

Jessi said we HAD to have Christmas decor on so we all grabbed Christmas stuff to wear and a jacket and ran out the door as fast as we could!!  Kenzie and I hopped in the car and she drove and I would be on the lookout!!  It was absolutely hilarious as we drove around the neighborhood looking for the items we needed!!  I would yell out and she would hurridly pull to the curb and we would race out and take photos of us beside the item!  We laughed and giggled and sometimes were right in the peoples' yards taking these pictures - what a hoot!!!

We thought we were doing SO GOOD by the time we finished and we raced back to the house, only to discover Evan and Glenn already sitting on the couch - completely done and relaxing!!  Now how did that happen????  Probably because Kenzie and I took individual pics of each other at each item and they did selfies at each place - oh well!!!  Gary and Gwyn were right behind us!!

What an awesome game!!!  Later Jessi put all the pictures together from our phones and made these cute pics of us at each place!

And if that wasn't fun enough - we did a minute to win it game (Jessi was keeping score for all of us as everything had points) and a word search (where I was with Glenn and he didn't get a one and I only got a few) where we did awful and then the FINAL GAME!

She divided us up again - I was with Evan, Gary was with Gwyn and Kenzie, Cam (her boyfriend who arrived for the minute to win it game) and Glenn - and we had to produce a video of singing or dancing to a Christmas song and we only had like 15 or 20 minutes to do it!!

OH MY GOSH - Evan and I chose "Rockin Around The Christmas Tree" and made up a dance together - it turned out just fine and what a fun memory I will have someday of dancing with my grandson!

The other 2 teams' videos were cute as can be and we all laughed and laughed at Kenzie's video!!  I have copies on my computer and occasionally look at them and just smile!

And in the end, Kenzie took 1st place - Evan took 2nd place - and I took 3rd place!!  WHAT FUN!