Christmas Eve Dance Off and a very unexpected SWEET Christmas

We went to our dear friends the Kwabi's for Christmas Eve where music and dancing is always a staple. Freda sure is the Santa Claus of her neighborhood. Every Christmas Eve she invites all the neighborhood children over to her house for quite the celebration then at midnight, she shares the meaning of Christmas with them and lets them open one gift from under her tree after they share something they are thankful for. At one point the kids decided to have a dance competition. It was so much fun. One of the little boys would bust into the splits and all the kids thought it was pretty cool. I begged and begged Radik to show him up with his splits. He finally took off his shoes and busted into the splits too. The kids thought it was pretty dang cool. I was so sad I didn't get a picture of it. After the dance off, poor Radik sat next to me and whispered in my ear that he didn't think he was going to be able to walk again. Ha! ha! I couldn't stop laughing. Oh, the things he does for me. ;-)

Radik and I shared such an amazing Christmas with my family last year (I've been blessed to have Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus as parents and The Calls' Home really is the place to be for Christmas) and I think we were both a little concerned about how humble this year's Christmas was going to be. It ended up being a very beautiful Christmas and even though my heart ached to be with my family it was a very sweet day.

We ended up opening two maybe three ;-) gifts each at midnight (I have no idea how my parents are able to resist opening more than one at midnight!) and were able to put the phone on speaker to hear my Dad read The Night Before Christmas to the fam in Idaho.

Thanks to my Mom's coaching the Turkey came out pretty delicious!!!


My cute friends Michael and Justin who were also far from Family joined us on Christmas, we played games, watched movies and ate so very much. Santa brought Monopoly for us (Radik had never played before and had been asking a ton if we could get it) and we ended the night with a game of it. I hadn't played forever and can't wait to play it with the fam the next time I'm home.