Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve with the Parson Clan. 

There were presents, yummy food, lots of cousins and a good time had by all.  Just see for yourself!

It was fun to watch Dawson this year.  He loved opening presents.  Well at least when his siblings gave him the chance to open one of his gifts he had a good time!

Yeah!  P.J's

Love that smile!

The girls are a little outnumbered 7:3. 

Gabrielle, Clara and Myah

Max sporting his monkey hat!

Parson and Dawson

My mom had a fun idea this year.  She got floating lanterns just like the ones in the movie tangled....who knew those were real!  Anyway we all went outside and let one off.  It was really amazing to watch.  And don't worry...they are biodegradable! The pictures turned out neat...kind of like this one that looks like Charley's head is on fire!

After a minute of letting the candles burn, they would just take off into the sky!  It was really cool.  I think a few passerby's were a little taken back.  We had a few cars stopped at the end of the driveway.  Hopefully Santa didn't run into any of the lanterns!

We also did the nativity this year.  It was cute and the kids had fun dressing up.  Darin only got video and since it takes a billion years to upload a video, I will spare you the Parson family version of the nativity.  We also did chimes this year thanks to Darin's mom for letting us borrow them.  It was fun to watch everyone anxiously wait for their turn ring their chime.  We made some pretty good music that night.  Afterwards we hurried home and put our four little sugar plums to bed.  They were so excited for Santa to come!