Christmas Eve Fondue Dinner

It was a fun and traditional Christmas Eve dinner for us - fondue of course!

Of course it started out with lots of food - fondue dinner including meat fondue and cheese fondue. There was also Bang Bang Shirmp, Potato Skins, Artichoke Dip, bacon wrapped chestnuts, jello salad, Shirley Temples to drink and egg nog punch. 

There was also plenty of good friends and family there too.

The Osbornes were there!  We love Caitie's cute new bangs!!

and Grandma and Grandpa Best...(no Grandma has not grown a beard - that's Clark!  Grandma was there, just not in the picture!!!)

and our friends the Jensens!

We also invited the missionaries for dinner - Elder Stanley and Elder Burroughs.  They had never had fondue before so that was fun!

The moms...

As usual we ate on trays in the living room.

and Jim built us a wonderful fire!

Santaland

With only two days to go before the big day we finally made it downtown to visit Santa.

Between Clark, Cali and Jim's work schedule Wednesday morning was the only chance we had to go downtown for our traditional family photo with Santa.  This year was our 25th year of visiting Santa in what is now Macy's Santaland (formerly Meier & Frank Santaland).

The boy's did give me a little bit of a hard time this year as they stood in line with dozens of children under ten!  Not sure how many more years I'm going to get away with this but I will as long as they let me!!! 

Each of them took their turns on Santa's laps and made their requests.

We got the photo!

The kids couldn't resist squeezing into one of the old monorail cars in the monorail museum.  It's hard to believe they were actually small enough to fit years ago!!  Clark didn't even try to squeeze in!!

Thanks Santa!!

Go Cougars!!

Tuesday night was the big BYU vs. OSU football game.  In our neighborhood we live between two Beaver households.  Our neighbors the Adams both went to OSU

and on the otherside the Osbornes are Beaver fans too - the hosts of our party!

There was lots of yummy food although the cookies were a little one sided - orange and black!

I brought BYU brownies!

The neighbors were all decked out in their Beaver gear!

Our neighbor's the Quillins were there too - they tried to stay neutral but Declan and Joe came over to the cougar side!!

But the Cougar fans ruled!!!

Hannah and Cali started out the evening like this.....

but ended it like this!!  Cali had a gift for Hannah - a new BYU t-shirt!

Hannah bet Logan that if BYU won she would put a picture of herself with a Go BYU sign as her Facebook Profile - so here's the photo!

Go Cougars!!