Christmas

Here are a few pictures from Christmas.

Nicholas being a shepherd in the Wells Family Nativity play on Christmas Eve. (Sadly, Nicholas had to go to bed before the Muhlestein's Nativity.)

On Christmas Eve, the Muhlesteins have a big dinner and each year it has a different theme. Since I've joined the family, they have done Indian food, English food, and French food. (I hope I am remembering right.) Joseph had the privilege of picking the theme this year. He picked New England cuisine, so they cooked up live lobsters flown in from Maine, coleslaw, bruschetta, and rosemary potatoes. They also bought clam chowder from Market Street Grill. For dessert, we had eclairs. Before the lobsters met their demise, we tried to have all 14 of them race. A couple of them moved a bit, but it wasn't that exciting of a race. Nicholas got to pet one of the lobsters. (FYI: In the month of December, Nicholas managed to pet a sting ray, a lobster, and a camel.)

As soon as Nicholas woke up on Christmas, we headed up to the Muhlesteins. They have a tradition where all the children sleep downstairs on Christmas Eve, so Santa can put out all the presents upstairs. In the morning, the children all line up on the stairs according to age and race upstairs to open presents. This Christmas was the only Christmas that Nicholas would be able to be first in line.

Grandma and Grandpa Wells took Nicholas to see the lights at Temple Square and to see Hogle Zoo Lights.

We also visited all of Nicholas' great grandparents on this trip.