Christmas Eve/ Christmas 2016

The Nativity play is always a good time.😊 Aidan was Joseph, Ella was a wiseman, Britton was King Herod, Clara was an angel. We didn't have enough kids to fill all the roles this year, so some of the older kids helped out which was really great!

It was snowing, and that's as artistic as the phone gets. 😉

It snowed, so actually Christmas day was a lot of snow shoveling in between the brunch and dinner. I prepared/cooked the prime rib again this year, so I basically got pictures after we finished decorating and then got distracted for the rest of the time. 😋

Some really cool designs in the ice! 

Family Christmas Party 2016

The Conrad side of the family tries to get together for a Christmas Party, and this year was kind of a crazy year, with lots of stuff going on. We didn't really plan anything so I just threw out that I'd do a dinner and then coffee/dessert/ games at my house on X date.

My Uncle Cleon and cousin Amanda were visiting from Illinois/Ohio, so they came over and joined the fun.

It was on a Thursday so we ended up watching my SIL on The Great American Bake-off. Funny story: (or not so funny) Our DISH receiver was dying that week, the fan would just quit so the box was getting too hot and freezing up and then it would take a while to reset it and get it to cool down. So of course that happens right at the end of one of the shows and we missed the last 10-15 minutes! 😀 We got it working again and then in order to help the box not overheat, we were blowing the receiver box with the hair blow dryer on cool during commercial breaks. True story. 

Ella and Clara helped with the desserts

Baker - Garrison school play 2016

I know I already posted about the Baker/ Garrison Christmas program a little bit, but I forgot I actually brought (and used!) my big camera, so here are a few more pictures from the plays.

(Refresher, Ella was a coyote, Britton was a Mallard duck, and Aidan was a reindeer at Santa's reindeer school.