Christmas Eve

This year we had Christmas in St. Louis. We rotate years, which is nice because then we get to spend all of Christmas in one place. Christmas Eve in St. Louis is always spent with my dad's family. We started new tradition last year with having our generation start to host. So Katie hosted this year. We had an excellent, non traditional Christmas Eve dinner that consisted of Spaghetti, meatballs, garlic cheese bread, salad and wonderful appetizers. We arrived a little before everyone so we could open presents with my dad. Stella got a new activity gym that she loves! Nora got a dinosaur train toy and some other goodies.

 After church we headed back to Katie's house and finished celebrating. The Bromeier tradition is to bring a $5 gift or gift card and we play a left right game to see what we get. After that we play bingo! We had a lot of fun playing bingo as always. Katie was the caller this year since she was hosting. We had lots of fun bingo gifts. It is pretty funny to see 30 people sitting around playing bingo and getting excited over silly gifts! Stella did a great job and was okay being passed around all night. We got home and all were in bed around 11:30. Needless to say we had to wake Nora at 9:00 on Christmas morning to open presents!

 We went to church at the 5:00 service at Concord Trinity. Peter is having his membership transferred there so that will be our church from now on. I like it and I like the pastor too. It is a pretty big church and there seems to be lots of families, which is nice. My mom is even going with us from time to time. Anyway, the 5:00 service was geared totally for the kids, which was really neat. The pastor didn't even do the service, which was different, but it was fun and the "sermon" consisted of describing the members that were at the manger on that day and instead of candles being lite we all received glow sticks.