This evening we had a wonderful Christmas Eve meal which started with rice pudding as is our tradition. Through the eating of the rice pudding we find out who has won the Almond Gift...this is a Scandinavian tradition where an almond is placed at the bottom of one of the bowls before the rice pudding is doled out. Through no planning on the adult's part, for some reason the youngsters in this house have won the gift year after year, and this year was no exception! Gunnar won - as illustrated in the picture. Luckily, the actual gift is typically some chocolate which is then enjoyed by all of us.
After a fabulous dinner of prime rib, potatoes, red cabbage, and bread it was FINALLY time for the boys to open their one gift (they open one on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning). They chose to open their gifts from Richard and Donna. Great choice as they were games that we could all enjoy! The comical thing was that the game for Hans is a Cranium game called Matching Madness which is obviously tailored to people under the age of 40! The boys killed us game after game. They loved it (as did we)!! :)
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