The Gray Family: Christmas Eve

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve this year at Matt & Erin's house. We ate our traditional potato leek soup in bread bowls. Matt & Erin made a delicious and beautiful salad (seriously, I should have taken a picture), artichoke dip, and homemade apple pie. Matt has been making pies for years and I think this was my favorite one yet! We invited Chris Obey, a friend from church, and his cousin visiting from Liberia to join our celebrations. It was fun to get to know them better.

In true Grandpa Gray fashion he shared a fun story with a Christmas message. His narration of the story was fantastic!

We sang several Christmas songs accompanied by Grandpa Gray. Adam & Anna sang and signed "Samuel Tell of the Baby Jesus". (We learned this song in Primary this year.) Calvin tried to help out too. We also got to hear Erin sing "Oh Holy Night" which was amazing.

Anna helped with Rachel. She loves her so much.

We also got to open our presents from David & Jessica, a custom Christmas story complete with pictures of them as the characters. Calvin wanted me to read it over and over.

We ended the night early at Matt & Erin's to get everyone home and in bed and finished the night by reading our final Christmas scripture about the Savior.

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Janis said...: Yeah you posted again. I've been checking! What a nice combination of fun and Christ centered activities for your Christmas Eve. We missed you all here in Cali though.; February 3, 2013 at 10:09 PM

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Kid Quotes

4/13 Calvin saying all of our names, "Dada, Mama, Am, Nana, Ca-Ca, Ca-Ca." Now he says, "Cal-m," for Calvin.

6/13 Anytime Calvin is sad or wanting my attention he says, "weed a wuve," meaning, need a love. He then gives me a big hug and pats my back.

4/13 "Todds and Shones," Calvin asking for the ipod and phone to play on.

11/12 I told Camille we had to go the grocery store to buy a turkey for thanksgiving. She asked, "what store has turkeys?" Me, "Cub Foods (our normal store)." Camille, "I didn't know Cub Foods has turkeys." Me, "well they are frozen turkeys." Camille after thinking a minute, "I don't think the turkeys like to be frozen." Me, "well, honey, they are dead turkeys so they don't care." Camille, "I don't like turkey. I'm not going to eat turkey for thanksgiving." Me, "no, you like turkey. It tastes like chicken." Camille thinking some more, "Because they eat chicken?" Me, "No, no, the turkey doesn't eat chicken. It just tastes like chicken." Camille, "Oh." She couldn't wait to see the frozen turkey.

10/12 Camille, "Mom, can you tuck me in like a Dorrito?" Me, "You mean a burrito?" Camille, "No, a Dorrito. They're yummy."

5/12 This one is from me after listening to a visiting General Authority from Utah, "Where do Utahans get the "t" in Wilt-son (or Nelt-son) from? From their moun'ains."

4/12 Camille, "How do I grow up to be a princess like Cinderella?" She asks this at least once a day.

10/20/11 Camille while having a fit and crying, "I don't want to be happy, I want to be crying." That about sums her up:)

10/19/11 We drove past a cement truck that let off a puff of exhaust and Camille shouts out, "Look Mom a be-cano!" Pretty sure she was going for volcano.

9/14/11 Camille after her ear popped, "Mom, my ear just burped!"

8/14/11 After catching a ground squirrel that has been eating my garden all year we were trying to figure out how to dispose of it. Adam said, "Should we suffer-cate him?"

5/20/11 Camille, "Is that Adam's alligator?" Me, "What?" Camille points to his drink from baseball. Me, "Oh, his Gatorade!"

3/3/11 Adam while looking at Calvin, "He looks like someone I know, but forgot."

2/25/11 Anna: "What's a stay?" Me: "A what?" Anna: "A stay, like when we pray." Me: "What?" Anna: "Please bless this stay." Me: "Oh, you mean day." (The really funny thing is that she's been saying this in almost every prayer for years.)

11/29/10 Adam: "Do you know what an encyclopedia is?" Anna: "What?" Adam: "It's what they had before Google."

11/27/10 Anna to Adam while playing house: "Adam, I'm getting that feeling again..." Adam: "What feeling?" Anna: "I'm going to have another baby." Adam: "Oh no!"

10/8/10 Camille while we were viewing stars, "Ju-pi-ter, Ju-pi-ter, WOW. Itz cool."

10/8/10 Anna, "Mom my mole teeth are hurting." She's getting some new molars!

4/28/10 Anna, "Mom when I grow up I want to be just like you. I want to be a mom and a teacher."

4/26/10 Adam feeling sick, "My stomach is all squeeze-y inside."

1/31/10 Adam: "Want to know why I don't want be a doctor when I grow up?"

Me: "Why?"

Adam: "Because they have to know the names of all the bones in the body. When you're a baby there are more than 300 and when you grow up there are more than 200. There are 206- I think."

(He learned about the body at school last year and could still remember how many bones are in the human body- 206!)

1/30/10 Anna while playing house, "Let's make this nice and filthy... Mom, what does filthy mean?"

12/09 Anna while playing a game, "Mom, it's fun to lose!"

11/10/09 A conversation during preschool, Brooklyn: "No one is perfect." Anna: "My mom is."

11/10/09 Anna to Adam: "If you eat a popcorn seed you'll turn into popcorn." Adam: "No, that's just a joke." Anna: "Oh."

11/10/09 Anna to Adam: "Does your head feel wooden?" Adam: "What? No." Anna: "My head feels wooden and broken."

11/09 Camille: "Mama, Mama!" She says a number of "words" but I have been waiting for that one! Her first word was "Uh-Oh".

11/09 Things Anna is grateful for: "butterflies, birds, my Mom that does pretty things in my hair"

11/09 I was fixing Anna's hair for church, Anna: "I feel princess-y!"

10/10/09 Anna: "Snow tastes like water!"

10/4/09 Anna while looking at stars, "There's Saturon"

10/4/09 Camille: "Grrrrrr"

10/4/09 "Daddy, I just made a one in hole!" -Anna after playing a mini-golf game at Grandma's house

7/18/09 Adam after Camille gave him a wet kiss: "I'm going to keep her kiss on me... it's ok because it will dry."

6/09 Adam: "Dad, there's red allergy growing in the fish tank!"

4/15/09 Adam to Anna: I have a girlfriend. (I listen a little more closely)

Anna: I know, Sydney

Adam: and Brooklyn, and Jennie, and Riley, and Jillian (Phew, I guess right now friends that are girls are his "girlfriends".)

3/09 Adam: "It's to bad I can't marry Camille because she so cute."

2/20/09 Anna to Camille: "You're the most special baby. You're the pretty baby in the world."

1/09 Anna referring to Camille: "Mom, how long are we going to keep her?"

1/09 We just finished moving Anna into Adam's room to make room for Camille. Adam: "When we have another baby after this one, we can sleep in a tent!" I guess he was thinking there are no more beds left so he'd have to give his up.

10/08 Anna: "Mom, I just saw a scary crow!" (I guess some scarecrows are pretty scary:)

6/7/08 The kids spent the night at Grandma & Grandpa's. When they woke up in the morning Grandpa wasn't there and Grandma had them guess where he went. Adam said, "Oh I know, he went golf balling!" He was right.

5/18/08 Adam: "Mom, when I grow up big and get married I will miss you too much!" I'll have to remind him of that when he is older.

4/21/08 We got to preschool today and Adam asked, "Mom, are we late?" in a panicky voice. I said, "No, we are early." He responded, "What is early?" I guess we'll have to work on that:)

3/22/08 We had our Easter egg hunt today. After we finished finding all the eggs Anna said, "Let's try that again."

11/3/07 Today I put pig tails in Anna's hair. She was so proud of them she kept calling them her, "pretty tails."

4/07 Adam just learned to put on his seat belt by himself and said, "All I need to do now is learn to drive the car."

11/06 On a cold winter day Adam could see his breath and said, "Mom, there's smoke coming out of my head!"

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Christmas Eve

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