Christmas Eve Recap - on New Year's Eve!

Finally... pictures from Christmas Eve,

appropriately posted on New Year's Eve!

(For your New Year's Day enjoyment,
I will be posting pictures from Christmas Day.)

Happy Christmas Eve breakfast!  Cheers...

Notice the center candle isn't lit until tomorrow!

We always travel to my parents' house for Christmas Eve.

We attend the service at my old Episcopal church and

then have dinner and presents with my sister's family.

Here are Sumter and his cousin, MS.

The masks have been worn every year.

My mother has gingerbread men, Santa and Mrs. Clause

and other tacky Christmasy characters!

 

My cute sister, my mother and me.

(My mother obviously forgot to tell AS and me that we

needed "cullah (color) on our lips" aka lipstick.)

Jackson and MS are extremely close and the best of friends.  

 

And littlest cousin C loves, loves, loves biggest cousin Sumter!

He was very excited that he got to use his

namesake's silver julep cup.

 My mother always sets such a lovely table.

We are getting ready to sing "Happy Birthday Jesus"

and blow out the candles on the cake she bakes every year.

I couldn't resist taking a picture of the Piggly Wiggly ketchup

next to the nativity scene on the buffet!

Still can't remember why it was there...

Now it is time for telephone calls from Santa!

Sumter is starting to wonder about this, but he gets into it regardless!

Love me my niece!  I call her Crazy C... she is such a mess!
And I must have found the lipstick - thank goodness.

And here she is with Mike.  She's tickling his ear with their elf.

(Oh, and get a load of his pants!!!)

The boys' big gifts from Mimi and G-dad were Red Rider BB guns.

They were so excited! 

 

It was a monogrammed Snuggie Christmas for my family.

Of course my sister and her girls had pink with green monograms!

 It was a great Christmas Eve... boys are getting tired

and ready for tomorrow morning.

 

I know your Christmases were blessed...