Pre Christmas festivities.

The evening of the 23rd, Taylor and Lynnea headed up to stay with Dan and Sharen (Lynnea's parents) for Christmas. Before they headed off, they gave and received gifts.

It was great to have them here, no matter how brief their stay.

The Billats invited us over for their traditional Christmas Eve dinner, Nativity Song sing-a-long, and Candy Game the next evening. We have been so blessed to have such great neighbors and friends.

Afterwards we headed home for our traditional gift-opening of pjs. (Ooops. Did I spoil it for you?)

Even the pups had Christmas Eve presents to open.

New oh-so-soft kennel blankies (in animal print, even). Yeah, I know what those pups like.

Next up: Christmas.