Christmas Favorites . . .

Each Christmas celebration that we are a part of, is my favorite . . . each one for different reasons . . .

Christmas Eve with the Jones's is my favorite because there is so much tradition involved. We always do certain things.

I love that we always dress up . . . for those wondering, Grace's Christmas outfit finally came together . . . we almost had a "wardrobe malfunction" :)

We always have family pictures . . .
Uncle Mark and Dad always light the candle they got for Grandma Jones, the Christmas of 1963 from Harry Sturman's store in Nooksack. And no, Harry wasn't nice to them when they were in shopping that day, but he did like to rub their fat little bellies . . . creepy, no? The Valentine's Ball Royalty always read the Christmas story . . . this years royalty was Uncle Tom and Julie
We always eat Oplatke . . . a Polish tradition. Jake and Emily ate a LOT of Oplatke . . . usually each person breaks off a tiny piece. :) We always drink Loganberry wine and toast, "Nastrovje"

We always eat rolls, mashed potatoes, oysters, peas, red and green jello and chicken nuggets and pray The Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, Glory Be and Bless Us Oh Lord before we do . . .
Santa always knocks on the door and delivers presents to the little kids . . . I have some video of "the knock" . . . I'll work on getting that up later. Grace got this "move and crawl ball" . . . she loves it. We always enjoy all the fun we have with our peeps . . .

There are threats that the Jones's are going to re-do the year we PARTIED LIKE IT'S 1999 (one of my favorite things the Jones' ever did . . . just in case the world was coming to an end at the millennium, we partied every night from Christmas to New Year's) . . . bring it on!