Christmas Eve

I meant to do this post yesterday but someone forgot to remind me it was our anniversary yesterday. Luckily I did get reminded yesterday afternoon so last night was spent eating pizza and drinking beer. Pizza and beer, how much better can an anniversary get?

Here is how I roll every Christmas Eve with the in laws (or as a friend of mine likes to say the outlaws). It works out pretty darn good this way because I never have to worry about who we are spending Christmas Eve with or who we are spending Christmas day with. When we lived in Michigan everyone would always come over to our house but since we left the wifes sister gets the dubious task of hosting everyone on Christmas Eve.

When I walked into Kelli's house this year with my camera in hand I immediately gave the camera to Amy and said "Here take some pictures tonight."

Her response was "Why do you want me to take the pictures?"

I told her "Because you aren't afraid to get in peoples faces and take them and besides I take terrible family pictures."

So all pictures tonight are courtesy of Amy except the one she is in and I don't know who took that one. Let me introduce you to some of the outlaws. Not everyone is in here because a)she didn't take a picture of them or b)she took a picture of them and it was so bad there was no fixing it so if somebody is missing blame Amy.



These are our two nieces Alanna and Arianna. Most of you might remember Alanna as Amy's maid of honor for Amy's wedding. Such a sad day - opps did I just say that out loud?



Once again Alanna (Is she a camara hog?) and Amy. And like I said earlier I have no idea who took this picture.



This is the wifes brothers family, well everybody except Ross. This could have been a great picture if Ross would have been in it. Just in case you're not sure her brother is the one sitting down on the right.



This is a picture of our niece Jillian with her son Drew and next......



...is a picture of Jillian's husband Larry with their other son Parker.



As everyone is aware and just in case you're not this is the wife's sister Kelli. She is the host of this shindig and she rules the roost.



Kelli's husband Rusty (as everyone calls him). If you meet him when he is at work it probably means you did something wrong since he transports prisoners for the state prison system. He is a Michigan State fan but I try not hold that against him.



And of course Rusty's mother, everybody calls her Grandma Janet. We get to see her every Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.





Here is Alanna with her boyfriend Nick, charming pair eh?



We don't really care who these two are.







And last but not least the wife's mother. She is the life of the party, what a hoot.

Well that's how I roll on Christmas Eve with the other side of the family.

Stayed tuned because Christmas is coming real soon and we have pictures of big slabs of meat, blurry pictures, and twister.