The King Family Christmas Party

This year, with Brian's family (aunts, uncles, cousins, grandpa) we had a "Christmas Around the World" themed party. It was a lot of fun. Here are the kids learning the hula:

Then we shared Christmas traditions from around the world...
But, the life of the party was definitely my little Raegan...
Here she is trying to steal the spotlight from her Grandpa by telling all the other kdis to smell her feet...

We had lots of fun doing the Chicken Dance with Brian's grandpa. A big tradition in our family... Bri's granpda is 85 or so and actually teaches dance classes!!!
He is one of my favorite people. Anyone who has benefited from one of my quilts has Grandpa King to thank for that. He taught me how to do it and even made me my own quilt frames.

Did a little limbo...

Next, I read a Christmas story from Russia called "A Christmas Bell for Anya." If you have not read it, I highly recommend it. It is a beautiful story with incredible illustrations. My mother-in-law says it's the same author as the "Great and Terrible" series... have not read that yet, but it is on my list.

But the best part was this- my mother-in-law really wanted one spiritual, Christ-centered portion to our party, so I told her I would read this beautiful book. Just as I was getting to the spiritual climax and started tearing up, leave it to Raegan to kill the mood... She blurts out loudly and VERY clearly, "Did my mommy just say dammit?!?!?"

I could not think of anything to say but "NO!!! I definitely did not just say that!" It took me a while to regain my composure after that. I couldn't help but laugh at the whole situation...

The best part is that Bri's family is really quite churchy. Had this happened with my family, it would not have been a big deal at all. My dad probably would have saved me by saying," what the hell did she just say?!?" But alas, no such luck!!! i can always count on Rae for an embarrassing moment!

Here she is being weird again...

She was really quite pleased with her very own Rudolph costume creation...

And what would a "Christmas around the world" party be without a pinata...

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All in all, it really was a fun evening, pinatas, hulas, embarrassing two-year-olds and all!