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We had a wonderful Christmas. All 22 of us!

 

Alex would open one present and then go play with it for a half an hour. So when all the big kids were done opening we sat down with Alex so he could open the rest of his.

We had a big breakfast then Grandma and Grandpa offered to watch all 11 kids while we went to a movie!

 

We finished the day with a big Christmas dinner.

*I want this on the record even though I have no pictures.

It’s the game us adults play to “win” our gifts from Tyler’s parents. It’s always so frustrating and fun!

So there’s 4 couples and each couple draws a number. This is to determine which order we go in. Which happened to go in birth order this year.

In Tyler’s parents room they have set up 6 different gift groups. The first sibling goes up and picks which gift she wants. Then her husband goes up after and picks which gift he wants or what he thinks his wife picked.

If you both pick the same one, you get it! But that never happens. So then the next person goes up and does the same thing.

I think we went through all 4 couples twice and still no couple has picked the same gift.

This is where it get’s frustrating!

A month before Tyler and I are at Costco. I’m seriously putting a nativity scene in my cart when he says 80.00 is too much for something we don’t need. In my head I think, whatever I will just buy it when you are not around. Since we don’t have ONE nativity scene in our whole house over the holidays. I was just trying to be Christ-like, but whatever.

Soooo one of the gift groups had THAT nativity scene in it, along with that big drink dispenser from Costco and a roasting pan.

PERFECT! Right? Why isn’t he picking it???

So every time Tyler and  I wouldn’t pick the same group I would call him names and ask what are you thinking??? Obviously you can’t talk too much so you don’t give any hints.

LUCKILY, we did end up getting our group. Just because know one else was picking it. So I said thank you (cause I got what I wanted) and called him a couple more names. He was picking another group that we REALLY didn’t need.

We play this every Christmas we can and it ends up being really fun if it doesn’t cause a fight!