Christmas Eve

Not actually Christmas Eve, but every year around Christmas time Ethan and I try to have a fancy dinner. There is no set menu or anything like that, but we try really hard to pick foods we either haven't tried or have never made.This allows us to always fit in a fancy Ethan Wing dinner no matter what we end up doing for the actual holidays.

This year we decided to spend our evening with the Johnsons so on December 22nd we spent a lot of the day cooking and getting ready for our fancy dinner.

The menu isn't THAT fancy, its just all new to us so it makes it fun.
This year it was twice baked potatoes, a new type of pork, an apple berry salad, and pretzel jello salad. Everyone's favorite was the drink. It was a lime sherbert cherry slush thing. Delicious!

I am so glad the Johnsons could come over. They were so cute and got all dressed up for it too. Even little Edwin had suspenders on! He was adorable.

 

Ethan's really into taking candids which is totally cool, but he decided to take candids while Elisa was away from the table. It totally felt like Ralph and I were having a dinner together. It was so awkward that it got pretty funny. Then we saw this picture and that just summed up all the funniness of the situation. 

 

After dinner we had a Christmas program where we read from the scriptures and the kids got to put the characters in the barn. Once they figured out that it played music, all was lost. They just kept pushing the button and dancing. We tried right?

But look how happy they are together! Kelsey has a few very close friends, but she and Ralphie just have that special bond. We always joke that they will get married, but I would totally be okay with it. We love Ralphie so much. Its going to be really hard to move away from him.

The night was wrapped up with a few hours of games and Little Mermaid for the kids. Man I'm going to miss the Johnsons.