I love all the fun Christmas parties we got to have this year with some of our favorite people. Christmas eve this year was on a Sunday. We woke up and went to church. We only had sacrament meeting today. So we got all dressed up and headed to church for our Christmas service. Brooklyn was singing a duet with Sister Hill, and Zane hill. They sang, "What Child Is This". Brooklyn, had a couple solos during the duet. It was beautiful! After church we went to the Kinsman's for some Christmas Eve fun. We played all kinds of games, ate yummy food, and opened gifts to each other. It was a perfect day!
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| Bastianclan Christmas 2017 |
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Brooklyn, Tina, Sarah, and Emily.
All the girls having way too much fun! |
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| We played a fun game of twister. |
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| Sarah, sure did a good job of getting Emily and Kayden tangled. Ha! |
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Kayden was calling the colors and Sarah Brooklyn and I were all tangled.
It was hilarious. Man I'm not as flexible as I once was. |
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| Chandler and Denny making their Sub Sandwiches for lunch |
The First Game was The Paper Plate Christmas Drawing Game.
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| The contestants. |
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| This game always cracks me up. |
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| Funny boys |
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| Sarah, was giving us the directions for our game. |
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| Look at all our cute pictures. |
The second game was Chubby Buddy. You know like Buddy the Elf? You try to fit as many marshmallows in your mouth as you can and after each new marshmallow you have to say Chubby Buddy.
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| Ben was adorable. |
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| Denny was Determined. |
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| Chandler was hilarious. He couldn't stop laughing. |
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| Jacob was a champion. |
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| Emily did a great job. |
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| Tina has a big mouth. |
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| I couldn't beleive how many Kayden fit in his mouth. |
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| Brooklyn did a great job stuffing her mouth full of marshmallows. |
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Sarah, didn't think she would be able to fit that many in
and I think she won.. |
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| Dennis was hilarious. |
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| Jeremy was a rockstart. |
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| The girls were playing I spy while the boys checked on dinner. |
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Jermey Started a whole Dog pile fight. Who do you think won?
Jeremy agains 5 kids. EEEKKKKk |
The Third game was un wrapping the Hershey Kiss. We had peppermint ones and milk chocolate ones. You had to unwrap the peppermint one and completely eat it before you could move onto the milk chocolate one. We pulled names out of a hat and created the teams.
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| Chandler and Sarah were up first. |
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| Emily and Brooklyn |
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| Emily and her Dad |
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| Jacob, and Kayden |
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| Jeremy and Kadyen |
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| Jeremy and Ben |
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| Jermey is finished with his first one. He has a handy cap and has to eat three. |
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| Denny and Ben |
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| Stocking Hershey Kiss Game |
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| Denny and Tina |
The Fourth game was a snow ball fight. You took mini marshmallows and had to throw them into your partners mouth.
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Ben chose me for a partner and he was hilarious.
Jacob chose Jeremy. |
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| Ben decided that one at a time was enough and threw the entire cup at me. |
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| Brooklyn and Kayden |
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| Sarah and Dennis |
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| Snuggling with my peeps. |
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| The last big snow ball fight was the Kinsmon's Vrs The Bastian's |
The Fifth and final Christmas Game was the Big, Hug, ginormous syran wrap ball that Sarah made filled with all kinds of goodies we bought. This was the first time I have every played this game and it was a riot. It was so much fun. So what you do is you wrap all kinds of treats, little prizes in this ball. one person starts to unwrap the ball while the person to their right rolls the dice. When the Dice gets to doubles the ball is passed to the person that had the dice and the dice moves down the line as well continue until all the prizes are claimed. It is a high pace game and it was hilarious to see how quickly someone was about to get a prize and bam double were rolled and the ball moved. If you haven't ever played this game. Do it. It's awesome!
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| We played a mean game of Harry Potter Clue |
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| Dennis cooked a delicious Brisket |
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| We had a yummy taco bar with lots of toppings, veggies, and fruit. |
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| Our Beautiful Christmas Table. |
The time has come to Open Jammies.
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Jacob, Denny, and Chandler were the first ones to get dressed. I think they were excited
to open their friends gifts next. |
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Love these sweet boys of mine.
Chandler (12) Kadyen (18) |
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Me and my Baby girl. Brooklyn, didn't love her jammies this year.
She was still a tropper and wore them. |
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| Tina & SarahLove this special friend of mine. |
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| The girls. |
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| Dennis & Sarah Kinsmon |
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| Kinsmon Clan |
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| Love the Kinsmon Dog Pile. |
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| Of course the Famous Bastian Dog Pile. |
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And Finally it was time to exchange the friend gifts. We put all the names in a hat and that is who got to open their gift.
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| Sarah, made these beautiful quilted place mats. |
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| Jermey made a Mint Chocolate Cheese cake. It was so delicious. |
Our last activity of the night was our Christmas Devotional.
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I love this huge screen the Kinsmon's have we just airplayed the hymn
it really was a sweet set up. |
