The Christmas Eve Dinner That Almost wasn't!

Every year for Christmas Eve dinner the Strong side of the family gets together for Lutefisk and Potato Sausage.  If you do not know what Lutefisk is...be grateful for that:)  Potato Sausage, on the other hand, is a once a year treat.  This year as we were driving up to Spokane, Terrell received a call that there was no Potato Sausage to be found anywhere in Spokane.  Terrell put in an emergency call to her friend Marcus.  Marcus lives in Missoula, but was heading west for the holidays.  He brought packages of Potato Sausage with him to Twin Lakes and dropped them off at my parents house.  We picked them up and drove them to Lisa's for Christmas Eve dinner.  I write this all to express how important this Christmas Eve tradition is.  Alas, we had Potato Sausage! 

The girls had a great time playing with their cousins and swiping gifts at the Bingo table. 

Sidney had far too much sugar, but was very pleased that she received the one present she just could not live without - Doc McStuffins! 

The girls enjoyed watching the smiles on all of their Auntie's faces as they opened the gifts that the girls had made.

Sophia was visiting in Portland.  She is a professional musician and was kind enough to play us a few Christmas carols on her flute.  Kendall was honored to be her music stand and took the job very seriously.  I was astonished at how many of the words I had forgotten to so many of the carols!

Beautiful Cousin Kami and her new earrings.  I hope they do not get in the way of her softball game!

We managed to sneak in a family photo.  Sidney has nothing but goofy faces for the camera lately.