Merry Christmas Eve! Saturday, December 24, 2016

Mama came over to Nanaw's house while Chase and Daddy went to 5 o'clock Mass on Christmas Eve. Mama and Nanaw went to Schnucks to get the ingredients for fruit salad, and everybody started arriving for Christmas Eve dinner before they got back to Nanaw's house. For dinner, they had delicious Kentucky Fried Chicken (or KFC as it's now known). Chase was so excited about his Hot Wheels Ultimate Garage from Nanaw. Chase and Daddy spent a lot of the evening in Chase's room with Daddy putting together the garage. There were 14 around the table -- JJ, Jon-Jon and Kaylynn, the grandkids' significant others, weren't there. Cheyenne and Sam came for the celebration and had a great time. Charlie was downstairs and Taylor was hiding under Nanaw's bed. Chase got a Mousetrap game from Uncle Mike, and he wanted to play it right away but Mama said he had to wait till later. It was a wonderful Christmas Eve celebration. Unfortunately, Nanaw forgot to take any pictures -- so Aunt Becky sent her one of Cheyenne in a Santa hat, and Mama sent Nanaw a picture of Chase in his Santa pajamas at home on Christmas Eve just before he fell sound asleep.