Every year at Christmastime, we take turns with the Barriers in hosting Christmas Eve for any members of our family who are available to join us along with Pat Wallace and any members of her family available. This year it was Patty and Jimmy’s turn to host the party and what a magnificent party it was! Joining Ken and me from the Hatch family were Michael and Alicia Hatch along with their sons, Jackson and Spencer, Elizabeth Hatch, and Katie and Kevin Laramore along with their 6 month old son, Cutter. Also joining the party were Kjell Schei and his friend Keely (see photo above) and Pat Wallace and daughters, Christy and Nancy Wallace. Elizabeth and Christy are pictured above. Also pictured above are Ken along with his daughter, Elizabeth and grandson, 9 month old Spencer.
We each took turns choosing a favorite Christmas carol that we sang together. Most of the carols were pretty traditional, but it was fun to remember the words with a little help from an I-phone app. Patty had the most unusual Christmas song that none of us had heard previously. We ended the evening with our traditional white elephant gift exchange and the sumo wrestler fan made yet another appearance!
At the end of a marvelous evening together on Christmas Eve, we were all off to head to our beds where “visions of sugar plums danced in our heads”.
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