Christmas Dinner

 I did a post about Christmas morning... here is a little description of the rest of Christmas day. We had a big family dinner, frosting cookies, cousin gifts, Baba/Papa gifts, doing the traditional Thompson family Christmas story, "Happy Birthday" cupcakes, and an awesome video that Audrey put together about "Give Me This Mountain". I only have a handful of pictures to post... we were too busy to take pictures- lol. 😉

Everyone helped with food for dinner. Since we had already eaten turkey and prime rib... dinner was ham. Annie made the cookies for the kids to decorate. I got a couple of pictures of that. When we did the cousin gift exchange, we went in order and one at a time. When we did the gifts from Baba and Papa, we passed out the gifts, so that everyone had one... then we said "go". All opening at the same time. It was fun. Annie was really wanting to do the candle light, songs, and Christmas story, since everyone was together. And it is traditional at their house to do the cupcakes. We used battery powered lights instead of candles. It still worked great. "Give Me This Mountain" was our theme for the Yosemite gathering. With that in mind, Audrey put together a video, with some thing that each member of the family conquered or accomplished in 2023. It was amazing. We were all crying by the end... especially with it showing Micah saying good bye to his dad this year. 

It was an amazing Christmas together. And a miracle to get that many of us here.