Traditionally, Christmas Eve is spent at Jason's parents house eating a traditional Swedish dinner, complete with ham, swedish meatballs, lingonberries, rice pudding and more! This was a tradition that Jason's Grandpa Grey started many years ago. This year we had to go with plan B. In the days before Christmas Eve, we had a huge storm go through that had everything from rain to ice/hail to snow. During the ice storm, Jason's parents lost power and are still without power as of Christmas Day. Luckily, their good friends who normally join us for dinner, volunteered their home for the cooking and hosting this year. Thanks JB and Lani!!
Dinner was great and the boys had a good time playing with their cousins and Bianka (JB's granddaughter). Carson, who doesn't normally eat much, had 2 pieces of ham and later while we were eating dessert, had 2 hot dogs.
After dinner and dessert we went to Sinnissippi Park to see the annual Festival of Lights one more time. It was a little strange going through the park while it was raining....actually it was pouring! The boys got home and went right to bed in fear that Santa would stop and see that they weren't sleeping and skip our house! Aidan was up until 10PM last night and he was VERY worried about being up so late! Santa had quite the weather to go through last night. We had a constant rain and high winds.
Here is Aidan snuggling with JB's dog, Molly. Luckily she was pretty mellow, Aidan likes to get right in there!
Carson liked JB's singing animals and trees. They all sang a different Christmas song. 
Carson's favorite dancing tree.
The boys with their cousins Abby and Hunter.
It was a change in plans from normal tradition, but it turned out great. Thanks again to Lani and JB for opening their house to all of us and our crazy kids!
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